Simulate

Definition: Simulate

Simulate

Verb

1. Reproduce someone's behavior or looks; "The mime imitated the passers-by"; "Children often copy their parents or older siblings".

2. Enact or perform again; "They reenacted the battle of Princeton".

3. Make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "simulate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)

Synonyms: Simulate

Falsehood

Dissemble, dissimulate; feign, assume, put on, pretend, make believe; play possum; play false, play a double game; coquet; act a part, play a part; affect; simulate, pass off for; counterfeit, sham, make a show of; malinger; say the grapes are sour.

Imitation

Mock, take off, mimic, ape, simulate, impersonate, personate; act; (drama); represent; counterfeit, parody, travesty, caricature, lampoon, burlesque.

Crosswords: Simulate

Books

• Electrostatic Discharge: Understand, Simulate and Fix Esd Problems (reference)

• Endix: A Computer Program to Simulate Energy Dispersive X-Ray and Synchrotron Powder Diffraction Diagrams (Nuclear Science and Technology) (reference)

• Foods which simulate meat : the nutritional aspects of vegetable protein foods which are meat analogues : report of the Panel on Novel Foods, Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy (reference)

• Research Agenda for Test Methods and Models to Simulate the Accelerated Aging of Infrastructure Materials: Report of a Workshop (reference)

• Strategy Games: A Collection of 50 Games & Puzzles to Simulate Mathematical Thinking (reference)

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McDivitt and White Simulate Launch. Credit: NASA.

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Health

To simulate the situation in the developing embryo, scientists placed pieces of ventral spinal cord in cell culture and exposed them to different concentrations of sonic hedgehog protein. (references)

Abuse of inhalants during pregnancy also may place infants and children at increased risk of developmental harm. Animal studies designed to simulate human patterns of inhalant abuse suggest that prenatal exposure to toluene or trichlorethylene (TCE) can result in reduced birth weights, occasional skeletal abnormalities, and delayed neurobehavioral development. (references)

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Albanian

tregoj sa për t'dukur, gjoja paraqes, bëj sikur (make as if to). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كاذب (bogus, deceptive, delusive, dummy, fake, false, fictitious, flash, lying, phony, pseudo, sham, snide, spurious, unreal, untrue, untruthful), ‏قلد (affect, ape, burlesque, copy, echo, fake, follow, imitate, inaugurate, mime, mimic, mock, parrot, present, send up, sham, vest), ‏حاكى (burlesque, copy, emulate, imitate, mimic, pattern, take off), ‏تظاهر (affect, assume, counterfeit, demonstrate, dissemble, dissimulate, fake, feign, feint, make believe, march, pose, posture, pretence, pretend, put on, seem, sham, show, simulation), ‏زائف (adulterate, artificial, bad, base, bastard, bogus, dummy, fake, false, fictitious, fictive, floating, hypocritical, imitation, imitative, mock, postiche, pretended, pseudo, queer, sham, shoddy, spurious, unreal), ‏صوري (phoney, sham). (various references)

Bulgarian 

симулирам (dissimulate, feign, malinger, sham), преструвам се (affect, dissemble, dissimulate, fake, feign, personate, pretend, profess, put it on, put on an act, sham), правя се на (act, personate, play, put on, seem), имитирам (affect, ape, imitate, mimic, send up). (various references)

Chinese 

模仿 (Aped, Aping, imitative, impersonator, mimicry, simulated, Simulating, simulation). (various references)

Czech

simulovat (feign, malinger), předstírat (affect, dissimulate, fake, feign, make believe, pretend, profess, sham), napodobit (copy, imitate, mimic, re echo). (various references)

Danish

matematisk model til simulering af det faktiske klima (mathematical model to simulate the real climate). (various references)

Dutch

mathematisch model ter simulering van het reele klimaat (mathematical model to simulate the real climate). (various references)

Farsi 

مانندبودن (Resemble, Similarity), وانمودکردن (Affect, Assume, Dissemble, Fake, Look, Pretend, Represent, Seem, Sham), تقلیدکردن (Assume, Imitate, Mimic, Pattern), صوری (Nominal, Ostensible, Superficial), شباهت داشتن به , بخودبستن (Arrogate, Assume, Pretend, Sham). (various references)

Finnish

teeskennellä (affect, assume an air of, be affected, dissemble, feign, make believe, pretend). (various references)

French

simuler (to simulate). (various references)

German

vortäuschen (counterfeit, fake, feign, pretend, put up, sham, to affect, to simulate), simulieren (feign, feign illness, malinger, meditate, ruminate, sham, to simulate). (various references)

Greek 

προσποιούμαι (affect, feign, feint, make believe, make out, pretend, pretend to, sham), υποκρίνομαι (cant, counterfeit, dissemble, dissimulate, feign, pretend, profess). (various references)

Hebrew 

לזיף (fabricate, fake, falsify, forge, sham, tamper), לחקות (copy, counterfeit, emulate, imitate, impersonate, mime, mimic, pastiche), להעמיד פנים (affect, dissimulate, feign, make believe, pose, pretend, sham). (various references)

Hungarian

színlel (make believe, malinger, pretend, to affect, to feign, to pretend, to put on, to simulate, to take on), mutat (display, indicate, point, represent, show, to denote, to indicate, to pretend, to record, to represent, to simulate). (various references)

Indonesian

menirukan (mimic). (various references)

Italian

simulare (affect, feign, malinger, mimic, pretend, sham). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

シフト演算機構 (chaconne, chanson, chassis, chemise, Chevrolet, crisp, dish, good time to take a picture, hat, look sharp!, precise, propelling or mechanical pencil, shaggy carpet, shaman, shamanism, shark skin, sharp, sharpener, sherbet, Sherlockian, shift arithmetic unit, shining, shirring, shuffle, shuffling, shut, shutdown, shutout, shutter, shy, Siberia, simoon, simulation, simulator, vehicle with body lowered). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

シミュレート . (various references)

Korean 

가상하십시요. (various references)

Manx

lhiggey er (affectation, affectedness, counterfeit, dissimulate, dissimulation, feign, feigning, feint, make-believe, pose, pretence, pretend, profess, sham, simulation). (various references)

Pig Latin

imulatesay.(various references)

Portuguese

simular (affect, assume, camouflage, counterfeit, feign, feint, make believe, palter, play-act, pretend, purport, put on, sham), simulado (artful, assumed, counterfeit, double, dummy, feigned, make-believe, mock, pretended, sham, simulated, spurious), imitar a aparência de, fingir (assume, attitudinize, counterfeit, dissemble, double, feign, feint, imitate, make believe, palter, play-act, pose, pretend, put on, sham), assemelhar-se, arremedar (burlesque, imitate, mock, monkey, mum, parody). (various references)

Romanian

simula (act, affect, assume, dissemble, feign, imitate, make, make believe, malinger, play off, pretend, sham), preface (alter, change, convert, feign, reduce, sham, swell, transform), lua înfãţişarea de, imita (ape, copy, counterfeit, echo, follow, forge, go after, imitate, mimic, parody, pattern after), ambiţiona (arouse the ambition, pique), afecta (affect, afflict, alter, appropriate, assume, concern, disorder, feign, grieve, pretend, sham, touch, trouble). (various references)

Russian 

симулировать (dissimulate, feign, sham Abraham, skulk, swing the lead), притворяться (act a part, affect, assume, assume a mask, dissimulate, feign, make believe, play a part, playact, put on a mask, wear a mask), иметь вид (be of the form of), имитировать (imitate, simulates, simulating). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

simulirati (assume the appearance, dissemble, fake, feign, malinger), izigravati (put on, trick). (various references)

Spanish

simular (malinger, mimic, put on, sham). (various references)

Swedish

simulera (affect, dissemble, dissimulate, fake, feign, malinger, pretend, sham, swing the lead), hyckla (counterfeit, dissemble, feign, sham). (various references)

Turkish

yalandan yapmak (feign, pretend), taklit etmek (ape, copy, copycat, counterfeit, do an impression of smb., echo, fake, follow suit, hit off, imitate, impersonate, mime, mimic, mock, take a leaf out of one's book, take an example by), taklidini yapmak (fudge, imitate, mimic, parody, take off), numarası yapmak (act, affect, feign, make a show of, play, pretend), gibi göstermek (put it on), benzetmek (assimilate, associate, bash up, belabor, belabour, clobber, compare, do one's job for one, imitate, knock galley-west, liken, sort smb. out), benzerini yapmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

удаваний (affected, artificial, assumed, counterfeit, feigned, hypocrite, make believe, mock, obvious, ostensible, ostensive, pretended, professed, put on, seeming, shoddy, studied, supposed, well-affected, would be), імітувати (counterfeit, hit off, imitate, mime, mimic, model oneself on), симулювати (pretend, swing the lead), моделювати (fashion, model), зображувати (image, limn, picture, portray, show), прикидатися (affect, counterfeit, dissimulate, feign, pretend, profess, sham). (various references)

assimulo, simila, similare, similari, similasti, similatus, similem, similes, simula, simulans, simulantes, simularent, simularetur, simulas, simulata, simulator, simulaverant. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "simulate": simulated, simulates. (additional references)

Words ending with "simulate": dissimulate. (additional references)

Words containing "simulate": dissimulated, dissimulates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Simulate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: imulate, Limusate, sabuleti, Samosata, samuelite, semulate, similiter, simulare, simulata, simulater, sinulate, timulate. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: amulets, muletas, ultimas.

-2 letters: amulet, autism, emails, lamest, litmus, mailes, meatus, mesial, metals, miauls, misate, miseat, muesli, muleta, mutase, saltie, salute, samiel, samite, samlet, smalti, stelai, telium, ulemas, ultima.

-3 letters: aisle, alist, almes, alums, amies, amuse, email, emits, etuis, ileum, ileus, islet, istle, items, lames, least, lieus, limas, limes, litas, lutea, lutes, maile.

+1 letter: haulmiest, malemiuts, mutilates, qualmiest, simulated, simulates, stimulate, sublimate, ultimates.

+2 letters: aluminates, amplitudes, culminates, dentaliums, emulations, fulminates, glutamines, humiliates, multiphase, multistage, multistate, mutualizes, neutralism, penultimas, psalterium, simulative, stimulated, stimulates, sublimated, sublimates, tularemias, ultimacies, unmanliest.

+3 letters: automobiles, calumniates, dissimulate, filamentous, glutaminase, illuminates, ligamentous, manipulates, milquetoast, misevaluate, multimedias, multitasked, mutualities, neutralisms, restimulate, seminatural, simulcasted, stimulative, subterminal, tourmalines, ultrasimple.