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Definitions: Emulate |
EmulateVerb1. Strive to equal or match, especially by imitating; "He is emulating the skating skills of his older sister". 2. Imitate the function of (another system), as by modifying the hardware or the software; in computer science. 3. Compete with successfully; approach or reach equality with; "This artists's drawings cannot emulate his water colors". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "emulate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
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Computing | To imitate one system with another, primarily by hardware, so that the imitating system accepts the same data, executes the same computer programs, and achieves the same results as the imitated system. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Contention | Compete with, cope with, vie with, race with; outvie, emulate, rival; run a race; contend; for, stipulate for, stickle for; insist upon, make a point of. |
Imitation | Follow in the steps of, tread in the steps, follow in the footsteps of, follow in the wake of; take pattern by; follow suit, follow the example of; walk in the shoes of, take a leaf out of another's book, strike in with, follow suit; take after, model after; emulate. |
Inexpedience | Challenge comparison, vie, emulate, rival. |
Opposition | Emulate; (compete); rival, spoil one's trade. |
Repute | Rival, surpass; outshine, outrival, outvie, outjump; emulate, eclipse; throw into the shade, cast into the shade; overshadow. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Emulate |
| English words defined with "emulate": Emulated, Emulating, Emule, Envie. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "emulate": ANSI ♦ Commodore 1571, Cremonas ♦ evolutionary programming ♦ Motorola 68LC040 ♦ virtual circuit, virtual connection. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "emulate": Emulable, Emulous. (references) |
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Screenplays | Just try to emulate a man you admire. (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay) | |
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Business | Taiwan and mainland firms seek to emulate American firms. (references) | |
Papery fabric, metallic fabrics, coated fabrics, waxed fabrics, crushed and heat mercerized fabrics; stretch knits; stretch and coated denim; threads trapped between double layers of fabric; cotton voiles; dry open weaves; machine-made fabrics which emulate antique garments. (references) | ||
Economic History | Brazil | U.S. sporting goods products enjoy a good level of acceptance because Brazilians tend to emulate the American lifestyle. (references) |
Minorities | Peru | Although Peruvians of Asian descent historically have suffered discrimination, their social standing has improved markedly as the country has sought to emulate Asia's earlier economic growth and as the Asian community achieved financial success. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Emulate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 94.28% of the time. "Emulate" is used about 332 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 94.28% | 313 | 16,314 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.72% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Total | 100.00% | 332 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "emulate": emulate smb.'s example. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
emulate | 33 |
cd emulate | 6 |
mac emulate | 3 |
ps2 emulate | 2 |
emulate mac pc | 2 |
emulate game | 2 |
ambient arm emulate | 2 |
emulate ipaq mips | 2 |
emulate window | 2 |
emulate manager switch task | 2 |
emulate linux | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "emulate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rivalizoj, matem, hahem (compete, contend, dispute, quarrel, rival, scuffle, vie). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نافس (rival), حاكى (burlesque, copy, imitate, mimic, pattern, simulate, take off), ضاهى (approach, compare, equal), باري (compare, match, play, rival). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съревновавам се с, подражавам ревностно на. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 看齐 (Emulated, Emulating), 儗 (doubtful, imitate, suspicious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | emulovat, soupeřit (compete, match, rival). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | emulere, efterligne (imitate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | emuleren. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پهلوزدن , هم چشمی کردن با, رقابت کردن با (Compete), برابری جستن با. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | emuloida. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | essayer d'égaler, imiter, discuter, être l'émule de, émuler (to emulate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | nacheifern (emulates, emulation, to emulate), nachahmen (ape, copy, imitate, impersonate, mimic, mock, to copy, to emulate, to imitate), emulieren. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μιμούμαι (ape, echo, follow suit, imitate, mime, mimic, monkey). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ללכת בעקבות (follow in his footsteps, follow suit, track, trail), לחקות (copy, counterfeit, imitate, impersonate, mime, mimic, pastiche, simulate), ל סות ל"שתוות. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | versenyez (compare, compete, contend, race, rival, to compete, to contend, to emulate, to race, to rival, to row, to run against, to vie, vie), verseng (compete, rival, to battle, to contend, to contest, to emulate, to rival, to vie, vie). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | menandingi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | emulare (emulates). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 倣 (follow, imitate), エマルジョン塗料 (ejaculation, emerald, emerald green, emery board, EMIfilter, emigrant, emigration, eminent, emollient, emotion, emotionalism, emulation, emulator, emulsion, emulsion paint, error, error message, error-signal, M size, medium size). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ほう (Act, cannon, divide, follow, gun, imitate, information, male phoenix bird, punishment, retribution, salary, side), エミュレート . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 겨루십시". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | eiyrt (attend on, bolster, chase, drive, emulation, ensue, follow, follow through, persist, pursue, pursuit, put it into practice, result, shadow, stalk, tail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | etterligne (imitate, impersonate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emulateay emular. (various references) încerca sã întreacã. (various references) стремиться (aim, aspire, gravitate, seek [b], wish for), соревноваться, превзойти (beat hollow, outbid, outdo, outmatch, outrival, overbid), подражать (ape, copy, counterfeit, echo, imitate, impersonate, portray). (various references) imitirati (ape, imitate, mimic). (various references) emular (keep up, rival). (various references) emulera, efterlikna (imitate, simulate). (various references) เอาอย่างเพื่อให้เท่าเทียมหรือเหนือกว่าคนอื่น. (various references) yarışmak (compete, contend, contest, race, run, vie), imrenmek (covet, desire, envy), benzemeye çalışmak, özenmek (elaborate on smth., take an example by, take pains, try hard). (various references) суперничати (contend, rival, vie), честолюбний (ambitious, aspiring, emulous), змагатися (compete, contest, match, strive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | aemula, aemulabantur, aemulabitur, aemulamini, aemulamur, aemulandum, aemulantes, aemulantur, aemulare, aemulari, aemularis, aemulata, aemulator, aemulatur, aemulatus, aemuleris, aemuletur, aemulor. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "emulate": emulated, emulates. (additional references) | |
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"Emulate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aemula, amulate, ejulate, emlote, emmulate, emolate, emollit, empusae, emulat, emulet, emullate, emult, emutate, endulate, eumobate, imulate, merulite, mulata, mulate, mulatoe, semulate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "emulate" (pronounced e"myulā't) |
| 6 | -m y u l ā' t | accumulate, formulate, reformulate, simulate, stimulate. |
| 5 | -y u l ā' t | articulate, calculate, circulate, coagulate, copulate, depopulate, inoculate, manipulate, miscalculate, overregulate, populate, recalculate, regulate, reregulate, speculate, stipulate, strangulate, tabulate. |
| 4 | -u l ā' t | adulate, annihilate, assimilate, congratulate, correlate, distillate, encapsulate, escalate, extrapolate, flagellate, gastrulate, insulate, interpolate, isolate, lanceolate, mutilate, oscillate, percolate, postulate, recapitulate, titillate, undulate, vacillate, ventilate. |
| 3 | -l ā' t | angulate, boilerplate, breastplate, capitulate, contemplate, ejaculate, electroplate, legislate, nameplate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-m-t-u" | |
-1 letter: amulet, eluate, muleta. | |
-2 letters: elate, elute, lutea, metal, telae, ulema. | |
-3 letters: alee, alme, alum, emeu, lame, late, leet, lute, male, malt, mate, maul, maut, meal, meat, meet, melt, meta, mete, mule, mute, tael, tale, tame, teal, team, teel, teem, tela, tele, tule. | |
-4 letters: ale, alt, amu, ate, eat, eau, eel, elm, eme, emu, eta, lam, lat, lea, lee, let, leu, lum, mae, mat, mel, met, mut, tae, tam, tau, tea, tee, tel, uta. | |
-5 letters: ae, al, am, at, el, em, et, la, ma, me, mu, ta, um, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-m-t-u" | |
+1 letter: emulated, emulates, malemute. | |
+2 letters: emulative, malemutes, umbellate. | |
+3 letters: allurement, antebellum, demodulate, emasculate, medullated, permutable, unlamented. | |
+4 letters: allurements, demodulated, demodulates, demountable, emasculated, emasculates, emulatively, eurythermal, misevaluate, multiheaded, penultimate, perambulate, prematurely, reformulate, restimulate, untrammeled, vermiculate. | |
+5 letters: antileukemic, documentable, hypermutable, mealymouthed, metalanguage, metallurgies, methaqualone, misevaluated, misevaluates, mononucleate, multifaceted, multilayered, multivalence, nomenclature, outplacement, perambulated, perambulates, preformulate, premenstrual, reformulated, reformulates, restimulated, restimulates, somatopleure, somersaulted, supplemental, troublemaker, ultimateness, underlayment, unmarketable, unmyelinated, vermiculated. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6D 75 6C 61 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -- ..- .-.. .- - . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101101 01110101 01101100 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E m u l a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006D 0075 006C 0061 0074 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39798778678671 |
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