emulate
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- æmulate (archaic)
Etymology edit
From Latin aemulor (“to rival, emulate”).
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emulate (third-person singular simple present emulates, present participle emulating, simple past and past participle emulated)
- (now rare) To attempt to equal or be the same as.
- To copy or imitate, especially a person.
- People are endlessly fascinating, even if you'd never want to emulate them.
- 2011 October 1, Saj Chowdhury, “Wolverhampton 1 - 2 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- The Magpies are unbeaten and enjoying their best run since 1994, although few would have thought the class of 2011 would come close to emulating their ancestors.
- (obsolete) To feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy.
- 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, Kupperman, published 1988, page 146:
- But the councell then present emulating my successe, would not thinke it fit to spare me fortie men to be hazzarded in those unknowne regions [...].
- (computing) of a program or device: to imitate another program or device
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to attempt to equal or be the same as
to copy or imitate, especially a person
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to feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy
in computing of a program or device: to imitate another program or device
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Adjective edit
emulate (comparative more emulate, superlative most emulate)
- (obsolete) Striving to excel; ambitious; emulous.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- A most emulate pride.
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emulate
- inflection of emulare:
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emulate f pl
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emulate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of emular combined with te