emulate

English

Alternative forms

• æmulate (archaic)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin aemulor (“to rival, emulate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛm.jə.leɪt/
• Hyphenation: em‧u‧late

Verb

1. (now rare) To attempt to equal or be the same as.
2. To copy or imitate, especially a person.
   • 2011 October 1, Saj Chowdhury, “Wolverhampton 1 - 2 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     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. (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 [...].

4. (computing) of a program or device: to imitate another program or device

Related terms

• emulation
• emulator
• emulous

Translations

to attempt to equal or be the same as

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 效仿 (xiàofǎng)

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• French: émuler (fr)
• Swedish: söka efterlikna

to copy or imitate, especially a person

• Catalan: emular (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 模仿 (zh) (mófǎng)

• French: émuler (fr), imiter (fr)
• German: nachahmen (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Occitan: emular
• Spanish: emular (es)
• Swedish: efterlikna (sv)
• Turkish: öykünmek (tr)

to feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy

• French: émuler (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish:

  Old Irish: étaigidir

• Turkish: çekememek (tr), kıskanmak (tr)

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

• Catalan: emular (ca)
• Finnish: emuloida (fi)
• German: emulieren (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Malay: melagak
• Spanish: emular (es)
• Turkish: öykünmek (tr)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Bulgarian: подражавам (bg) (podražavam), имитирам (bg) (imitiram), копирам (bg) (kopiram)
• French: copier (fr), simuler (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Indonesian: meniru, menirukan, membeo, memimik
• Turkish: taklit etmek (tr), öykünmek (tr), kopya etmek (tr)

Adjective

emulate (comparative more emulate, superlative most emulate)

1. (obsolete) Striving to excel; ambitious; emulous.
   • (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     A most emulate pride.

See also

• mimic
• copy
• imitate
• simulate

Anagrams

• metulae

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Italian

Verb

emulate

1. second-person plural present indicative of emulare
2. second-person plural imperative of emulare
3. feminine plural of emulato