"emulate" meaning in English

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Adjective

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

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

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "copy",
          "copy"
        ],
        [
          "imitate",
          "imitate"
        ],
        [
          "person",
          "person"
        ]
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, Kupperman, published 1988, page 146",
          "text": "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 [...].",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy."
      ],
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        [
          "rivalry",
          "rivalry"
        ],
        [
          "jealous",
          "jealous"
        ],
        [
          "envy",
          "envy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) To feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Computing"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "of a program or device: to imitate another program or device"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing) of a program or device: to imitate another program or device"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɛm.jə.leɪt/"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
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  "synonyms": [
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "æmulate"
    }
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xiàofǎng",
      "sense": "to attempt to equal or be the same as",
      "word": "效仿"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to attempt to equal or be the same as",
      "word": "emuloida"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to attempt to equal or be the same as",
      "word": "émuler"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to attempt to equal or be the same as",
      "word": "emular"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to attempt to equal or be the same as",
      "word": "söka efterlikna"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to copy or imitate, especially a person",
      "word": "emular"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "mófǎng",
      "sense": "to copy or imitate, especially a person",
      "word": "模仿"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to copy or imitate, especially a person",
      "word": "imiteren"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to copy or imitate, especially a person",
      "word": "nadoen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to copy or imitate, especially a person",
      "word": "jäljitellä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to copy or imitate, especially a person",
      "word": "matkia"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to copy or imitate, especially a person",
      "word": "émuler"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to copy or imitate, especially a person",
      "word": "imiter"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to copy or imitate, especially a person",
      "word": "nachahmen"
    },
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      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to copy or imitate, especially a person",
      "word": "aemulor"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "to copy or imitate, especially a person",
      "word": "eiyr er"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "to copy or imitate, especially a person",
      "word": "emular"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to copy or imitate, especially a person",
      "word": "emular"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to copy or imitate, especially a person",
      "word": "emula"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to copy or imitate, especially a person",
      "word": "imita"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to copy or imitate, especially a person",
      "word": "emular"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to copy or imitate, especially a person",
      "word": "efterlikna"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to copy or imitate, especially a person",
      "word": "öykünmek"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "to copy or imitate, especially a person",
      "word": "efelychu"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy",
      "word": "émuler"
    },
    {
      "code": "sga",
      "lang": "Old Irish",
      "sense": "to feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy",
      "word": "étaigidir"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy",
      "word": "çekememek"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy",
      "word": "kıskanmak"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "in computing of a program or device: to imitate another program or device",
      "word": "emular"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "in computing of a program or device: to imitate another program or device",
      "word": "emuloida"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "in computing of a program or device: to imitate another program or device",
      "word": "emulieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "in computing of a program or device: to imitate another program or device",
      "word": "melagak"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "in computing of a program or device: to imitate another program or device",
      "word": "emula"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "in computing of a program or device: to imitate another program or device",
      "word": "emular"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "in computing of a program or device: to imitate another program or device",
      "word": "emulera"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "in computing of a program or device: to imitate another program or device",
      "word": "öykünmek"
    }
  ],
  "word": "emulate"
}

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    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English undefined derivations",
    "English verbs"
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      "form": "more emulate",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
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  "lang_code": "en",
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    },
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      "word": "imitate"
    },
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      "word": "simulate"
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        "(obsolete) Striving to excel; ambitious; emulous."
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      "word": "æmulate"
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