Crossword clues for emulate
emulate
- Copy - reach equality with
- Compete successfully with fast runner towards the end
- Strive to match
- Follow bird after hours
- Fast Australian runner behind rival
- Attempt to equal
- Australian bird, a sort of teal, is mimic
- Attempt to match
- Bird slow to to imitate
- Deprived of strength, captain and I acted recklessly
- Rip off
- Do the same
- Model oneself after
- Do like
- Vie with
- Try to be like
- Use as a role model
- Try to rival
- Try to act like
- Strive to be as good as
- Pattern oneself after
- Model oneself upon
- Make an example of?
- Copy — reach equality with
- Rival successfully
- Act like
- Take after
- Follow in the footsteps of
- Be like
- Use as a model
- Model after
- Attempt to copy
- Strive to equal
- Compete with
- Try to equal or surpass (someone)
- Copy competitively
- Pattern after
- Copy a flightless bird?
- Try to equal or excel
- Try to outdo
- Try to vie with
- Ape
- Copy a ratite?
- Model oneself on
- Match runner dead
- Copy letter in delight
- Copy flightless bird no longer living
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Emulate \Em"u*late\,
[L. aemulatus, p. p. of aemulari, fr. aemulus emulous; pro
akin to E. imitate.] Striving to excel; ambitious; emulous. [Obs.] ``A most emulate pride.''
--Shak.
Emulate \Em"u*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emulated; p. pr. & vb. n. Emulating.] To strive to equal or to excel in qualities or actions; to imitate, with a view to equal or to outdo, to vie with; to rival; as, to emulate the good and the great.
Thine eye would emulate the diamond.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, back-formation from emulation, or else from Latin aemulatus, past participle of aemulari "to rival." Related: Emulated; emulating; emulable; emulative.
Wiktionary
(context obsolete English) Striving to excel; ambitious; emulous. v
1 (context now rare English) To attempt to equal or be the same as. 2 To copy or imitate, especially a person.
WordNet
v. strive to equal or match, especially by imitating; "He is emulating the skating skills of his older sister"
imitate the function of (another system), as by modifying the hardware or the software
compete with successfully; approach or reach equality with; "This artists's drawings cannot emulate his water colors"
Wikipedia
Emulate is a startup company focused on the commercialization of the Organ on a chip - a tissue-based technology that replicates human organ-level function that is used to model organs in healthy and diseased states. The platform has applications in pharmaceutical research and development, testing how different chemicals and foods affect human health, and personalized therapy. The company was spun out from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, where the technology was initially invented and then extensively developed. Donald Ingber founded the company around 2013. James Coon is a co-founder and been the CEO since the company was incorporated. Geraldine Hamilton is the company's President and Chief Science Officer since late 2014.
Usage examples of "emulate".
The perpetual resort of pilgrims and spectators insensibly formed, in the neighborhood of the temple, the stately and populous village of Daphne, which emulated the splendor, without acquiring the title, of a provincial city.
If the skein of historical causality had been different - if the brilliant guesses of the atomists on the nature of matter, the plurality of worlds, the vastness of space and time had been treasured and built upon, if the innovative technology of Archimedes had been taught and emulated, if the notion of invariable laws of Nature that humans must seek out and understand had been widely propagated - I wonder what kind of world we would live in now.
They went to Ganymede, and met Hope, Forta, and a third person: Doppie, on loan from Earth to emulate Spirit when Forta was not available.
Sesame handled this one by emulating a fire-breathing dragon who might set fire to the cloud of gas.
Then the face of Spirit came on: Forta, emulating her with uncanny precision.
Later Spirit learned that Forta had been abducted, but that Hope had managed to exchange places with her, emulating her while she emulated him and escaped.
She had substituted for Spirit, emulating her during her absence, serving as secretary, and that was all.
This Forta was emulating the original Forta, complete with her ignorance.
I had seen no wisdom in emulating his set routines and mental exercises designed to prepare a student to Skill.
Wix she took a fresh cue, emulating her governess and bridging over the interval with the simple expectation of trust.
Familiar as she had grown with the fact of the great alternative to the proper, she felt in her governess and her father a strong reason for not emulating that detachment.
Children learned adult behavior by emulating their parents, and sexual behavior was just one of many activities they mimicked.
East, the Abbassides soon disdained the abstinence and frugality of the first caliphs, and aspired to emulate the magnificence of the Persian kings.
Tair could not open his mouth without crowing, and the boy Hok strived mightily to emulate his older brother.
Mademoiselle Linders had gained her present position not less by her superior birth and education, than by that to which she would more willingly have attributed her elevation--a certain asceticism of life which she affected, an extra observance of fasts and vigils, which the good nuns looked upon with reverence, without caring to emulate such peculiar sanctity in their own persons.