mock-up

[Dan Goncharoff]

Mock-ups are used by architects to show buildings that don't exist *yet*,
and by archeologists to show buildings that don't exist *now*, but used to
exist.

I think the usage of mock-up is broader than your experience tells you.

DanG


On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Mock-ups, in my experience, are (usually smaller and non-functioning, or
> not fully functional) complete models of machines like airplanes that don't
> exist *yet.* An airplane mock-up, for example, is (or used to be) useful
> for wind-tunnel tests.
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> The novelty with Tricky Dick is that he was a person, not a thing; he *did*
> exist once; and the model is only of his head, not the whole person.
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> So that's strike three in the  inappropriateness game.
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> JL
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> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > At 2/5/2013 07:35 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> > >"A physical representation or reconstruction (of a human head)."
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> > >That's what CNN's Christine Romans calls the plastic bust of Richard III
> > >based upon his newly unearthed skull.
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> > I see the Richard III Society is trying to reconstruct him too.  He's
> > younger-looking, less malevolent, and more smiley than the
> > run-of-the-mill portraits.
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> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/now-we-can-see-his-face-the-next-step-of-the-richard-iii-discovery-story-8480958.html
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> > But the mock-up looks to me like it was influenced by Laurence Olivier.
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> > Joel
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