"emulate" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈɛm.jə.leɪt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-emulate.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more emulate [comparative], most emulate [superlative]
Etymology: From Latin aemulor (“to rival, emulate”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|la|aemulor||to rival, emulate}} Latin aemulor (“to rival, emulate”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} emulate (comparative more emulate, superlative most emulate)
  1. (obsolete) Striving to excel; ambitious; emulous. Tags: obsolete Related terms: mimic, copy, imitate, simulate
    Sense id: en-emulate-en-adj-DXdWyTmV Categories (other): English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 30 24 16 7 23
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: æmulate [archaic]

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈɛm.jə.leɪt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-emulate.wav [Southern-England] Forms: emulates [present, singular, third-person], emulating [participle, present], emulated [participle, past], emulated [past]
Etymology: From Latin aemulor (“to rival, emulate”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|la|aemulor||to rival, emulate}} Latin aemulor (“to rival, emulate”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} emulate (third-person singular simple present emulates, present participle emulating, simple past and past participle emulated)
  1. (now rare) To attempt to equal or be the same as. Tags: archaic Translations (to attempt to equal or be the same as): 效仿 (xiàofǎng) (Chinese Mandarin), emuloida (Finnish), émuler (French), emular (Portuguese), söka efterlikna (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-emulate-en-verb-BQUAP4Wp Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 31 21 3 24 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 30 24 16 7 23 Disambiguation of 'to attempt to equal or be the same as': 91 4 1 3
  2. To copy or imitate, especially a person. Translations (to copy or imitate, especially a person): emular (Catalan), 模仿 (mófǎng) (Chinese Mandarin), imiteren (Dutch), nadoen (Dutch), jäljitellä (Finnish), matkia (Finnish), émuler (French), imiter (French), nachahmen (German), aemulor (Latin), eiyr er (Manx), emular (Occitan), emular (Portuguese), emula (Romanian), imita (Romanian), emular (Spanish), efterlikna (Swedish), öykünmek (Turkish), efelychu (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-emulate-en-verb-M5rR3BbE Categories (other): English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 30 24 16 7 23 Disambiguation of 'to copy or imitate, especially a person': 4 86 1 9
  3. (obsolete) To feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy. Tags: obsolete Translations (to feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy): émuler (French), étaigidir (Old Irish), çekememek (Turkish), kıskanmak (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-emulate-en-verb-Lr2tmZfs Disambiguation of 'to feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy': 1 1 97 1
  4. (computing) of a program or device: to imitate another program or device Categories (topical): Computing Translations (in computing of a program or device: to imitate another program or device): emular (Catalan), emuloida (Finnish), emulieren (German), melagak (Malay), emula (Romanian), emular (Spanish), emulera (Swedish), öykünmek (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-emulate-en-verb-~I3VM8jS Categories (other): English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 30 24 16 7 23 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences Disambiguation of 'in computing of a program or device: to imitate another program or device': 3 15 1 82
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: æmulate [archaic] Derived forms: emulative, emulatively Related terms: emulation, emulator, emulous

Verb [Italian]

Head templates: {{head|it|verb form}} emulate
  1. inflection of emulare:
    second-person plural present indicative
    Tags: form-of, indicative, plural, present, second-person
    Sense id: en-emulate-it-verb-WUgoY5XM Categories (other): Italian entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Italian entries with incorrect language header: 83 12 4
  2. inflection of emulare:
    second-person plural imperative
    Tags: form-of, imperative, plural, second-person
    Sense id: en-emulate-it-verb-8sbWty1s
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb [Italian]

Head templates: {{head|it|past participle form|g=f-p}} emulate f pl
  1. feminine plural of emulato Tags: feminine, form-of, participle, plural Form of: emulato
    Sense id: en-emulate-it-verb-wrR3Yjq-
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb [Spanish]

Head templates: {{head|es|verb form}} emulate
  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of emular combined with te Tags: form-of, imperative, object-second-person, object-singular, second-person, singular, with-voseo Form of: emular
    Sense id: en-emulate-es-verb-6O-FTL87 Categories (other): Spanish entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for emulate meaning in All languages combined (12.7kB)

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        "(obsolete) To feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy."
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "roman": "xiàofǎng",
      "sense": "to attempt to equal or be the same as",
      "word": "效仿"
    },
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      "sense": "to attempt to equal or be the same as",
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    },
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      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "to attempt to equal or be the same as",
      "word": "émuler"
    },
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      "sense": "to attempt to equal or be the same as",
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    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to attempt to equal or be the same as",
      "word": "söka efterlikna"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
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      "word": "emular"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
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      "roman": "mófǎng",
      "sense": "to copy or imitate, especially a person",
      "word": "模仿"
    },
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    {
      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "to copy or imitate, especially a person",
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to copy or imitate, especially a person",
      "word": "matkia"
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    {
      "code": "fr",
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      "word": "émuler"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "to copy or imitate, especially a person",
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      "code": "de",
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      "word": "nachahmen"
    },
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      "sense": "to copy or imitate, especially a person",
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      "code": "gv",
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      "sense": "to copy or imitate, especially a person",
      "word": "eiyr er"
    },
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      "code": "oc",
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      "sense": "to copy or imitate, especially a person",
      "word": "emular"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "to copy or imitate, especially a person",
      "word": "emular"
    },
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      "word": "emula"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
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    },
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      "code": "sv",
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      "sense": "to copy or imitate, especially a person",
      "word": "efterlikna"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
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      "sense": "to copy or imitate, especially a person",
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    },
    {
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      "word": "émuler"
    },
    {
      "code": "sga",
      "lang": "Old Irish",
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      "word": "étaigidir"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
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      "sense": "to feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy",
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    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy",
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      "code": "ca",
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      "sense": "in computing of a program or device: to imitate another program or device",
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "in computing of a program or device: to imitate another program or device",
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      "code": "ms",
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      "sense": "in computing of a program or device: to imitate another program or device",
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    {
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      "sense": "in computing of a program or device: to imitate another program or device",
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      "code": "tr",
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