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emulate
[ verb em-yuh-leyt; adjective em-yuh-lit ]
verb (used with object)
- to try to equal or excel; imitate with effort to equal or surpass:
to emulate one's father as a concert violinist.
- to rival with some degree of success:
Some smaller cities now emulate the major capitals in their cultural offerings.
- Computers.
- 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.
- to replace (software) with hardware to perform the same task.
adjective
- Obsolete. emulous.
emulate
/ ˈɛmjʊˌleɪt /
verb
- to attempt to equal or surpass, esp by imitation
- to rival or compete with
- 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
- ˈemuˌlator, noun
- ˈemulatively, adverb
- ˈemulative, adjective
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Other Words From
- em·u·la·tive adjective
- em·u·la·tive·ly adverb
- em·u·la·tor noun
- non·em·u·la·tive adjective
- o·ver·em·u·late verb (used with object) overemulated overemulating
- un·em·u·la·tive adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of emulate1
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Example Sentences
As you exit your teenage years, are there artist you would like to emulate?
The experience is intended to emulate being taken hostage, which feels strange in these very real ISIS horror-drenched times.
A role model is someone whose behaviors one seeks to emulate.
In Chicago, you have rappers like Chief Keef posing with guns, and the young kids there emulate that.
This is not an example that current governments and institutions should emulate.
We shall, I know, emulate their steadfastness and achieve a result which will confer added laurels to French and British arms.
She had no wish to emulate, but neither did she relish feeling provincial, a chit, an outsider.
For, in the first place, who would wish to emulate extraordinary catastrophes?
"And one that an Englishman may do well to emulate," returned Bluewater.
Neither do I mean that we should set out to emulate the happy cannibals in the South Seas.
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