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`emulate
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`em-u-late
`[verb em-yuh-leyt; adjective em-yuh-lit]
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`W ord Origin
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`verb (used with object), emulated, emulating.
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`to try to equal or excel; imitate with effort to equal or surpass:
`to emulate one's father as a concert violinist.
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`2.
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`to rival with some degree of success:
`Some smaller cities now emulate the major capitals in their cultural offerings.
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`3.
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`Computers.
`a. to imitate (a particular computer system) by using a software system, often including a microprogram or another
`computer that enables it to do the same work, run the same programs, etc., as the first.
`b. to replace (software) with hardware to perform the same task.
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`adjective
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`4.
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`Obsolete. emulous.
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`Origin of emulate
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`Latin
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`1580-1590
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`1580-90; < Latin aemulātus, past participle of aemulārī to rival. See emulous, -ate
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`Related forms
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`emulative, adjective
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`emulatively, adverb
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`emulator, noun
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`nonemulative, adjective
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`overemulate, verb (used with object), overemulated, overemulating.
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`Can be confused
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`emulate, immolate.
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`Synonyms
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`1. follow, copy.
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`Examples from the Web for em-u-late
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`Contemporary Examples
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`W e females believed that to be successful w e had to “man up” and emulate masculine emotional restraint.
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`W hy Do W omen Cry More Than Men?
`Anne Kreamer
`December 17, 2010
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`It w ill not take the Iraqis anyw here near as long as it took us, because there are examples for them to emulate, or to bew are of.
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`Iraq's Political Miracle
`Tunku Varadarajan
`March 2, 2010
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`W hy w ould w e say that they should emulate us, instead of the other w ay around?
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`America Really Is Exceptional
`Megan McArdle
`September 25, 2012
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`In Chicago, you have rappers like Chief Keef posing w ith guns, and the young kids there emulate that.
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`Quincy Jones Talks Chicago’s Mean Streets, W hy Kanye W est Is No Michael Jackson, and Bieber
`Marlow Stern
`September 24, 2014
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`Every four years, Republican president candidates promise to emulate Ronald Reagan.
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`How Romney Is Like Reagan
`Peter Beinart
`June 19, 2011
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`Historical Examples
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`They appeal to noble sons to emulate the heroes of this great conflict.
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`The Little Lady of Lagunitas
`Richard Henry Savage
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`The Prince praised the deeds of his ancestors, and called upon him to emulate them.
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`Red Cap Tales
`Samuel Rutherford Crockett
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`Some o' you jokers have got a fine richness of colour on your physiognimies that I don't pretend to emulate.
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`W ith Edged Tools
`Henry Seton Merriman
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`W as it something in a cast of character or a tenet of a creed, or w as it w hat any one could emulate?
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`The Letter of the Contract
`Basil King
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`Slow ly, the modern masses are learning to emulate their erstw hile masters in the art of eating.
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`Cooking and Dining in Imperial Rome
`Apicius
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`British Dictionary definitions for em-u-late
`emulate
`/ˈɛmjʊˌleɪt/
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`verb (transitive)
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`1.
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`to attempt to equal or surpass, esp by imitation
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`2.
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`to rival or compete with
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`3.
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`to make one computer behave like (another different type of computer) so that the imitating system can operate on the
`same data and execute the same programs as the imitated system
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`Derived Forms
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`Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
`© W illiam Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
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`Word Origin and History for em-u-late
`v.
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`1580s, back-formation from emulation, or else from Latin aemulatus, past participle of aemulari "to rival." Related: Emulated;
`emulating.
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`Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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