emulate
verbEtymology
Definitions
To attempt to equal or be the same as.
To copy or imitate, especially a person.
- People are endlessly fascinating, even if you'd never want to emulate them.
- The Magpies are unbeaten and enjoying their best run since 1994, although few would have thought the class of 2011 would come close to emulating their ancestors.
To feel a rivalry with
To feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy.
- 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 [...].
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of a program or device
of a program or device: to imitate another program or device
Striving to excel, ambitious, emulous.
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The neighborhood
Derived
emulable, emulatable, emulation, emulative, emulator, emulatory, unemulated
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at emulate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at emulate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at emulate
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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