emulate

verb
/ˈɛm.jʊ.leɪt/UK/ˈɛm.jə.leɪt/CA/ˈem.jə.læɪt/

Etymology

First attested in 1586; borrowed from Latin aemulātus, perfect active participle of Latin aemulor (“to rival, emulate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

  1. derived from aemulor
  2. borrowed from aemulātus

Definitions

  1. To attempt to equal or be the same as.

  2. 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.
  3. 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 [...].
  4. + 2 more definitions
    1. of a program or device

      of a program or device: to imitate another program or device

    2. Striving to excel, ambitious, emulous.

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The neighborhood

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.

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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.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA