emulate

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emulate (third-person singular simple present emulates, present participle emulating, simple past and past participle emulated)

(now rare) To attempt to equal or be the same as.
To copy or imitate, especially a person.
- 2011 October 1, Saj Chowdhury, “Wolverhampton 1 - 2 Newcastle”, BBC Sport:
  
  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.
(obsolete) To feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy.
- 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 146:
  
  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 [...].
(computing) of a program or device to imitate another program or device

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