emulate

present singular third person emulates · participle present emulating · participle past emulated · past emulated · alternative obsolete æmulate

1. archaicTo 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.

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   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.

   2011 October 1, Saj Chowdhury, “Wolverhampton 1 - 2 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport

3. obsoleteTo 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 [...].

   1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, Kupperman, published 1988, page 146

4. computingof a program or device: to imitate another program or device

comparative more emulate · superlative most emulate · alternative obsolete æmulate

1. obsoleteStriving to excel, ambitious, emulous.

   That can I, At leaſt the whiſper goes ſo : Our laſt King, Whoſe Image euen but novv appear'd to vs, VVas (as you know) by Fortinbras of Norvvay, (Thereto prick’d on by a moſt emulate Pride) Dar’d to the Combate.

   c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], pages 152-153, column 1