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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
simulate
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
computer
▪ None the less the Bristol computer managed to simulate different effects of varying wrist torques.
▪ Although digital computers have to simulate this parallelism, true neural network hardware will really perform the operations in parallel.
▪ A computer program to simulate the simple stream-pattern experiment described earlier would follow the same lines as a manual simulation.
▪ Or create your team and let the computer simulate a season, to see where your team finishes.
model
▪ Outline the problems met with in designing a model to simulate changes in the size and structure of a human population.
▪ References were frequently made to the original model to faithfully simulate the soft effect of the creases.
▪ It had not been predicted by any of the models simulating potential pollution effects on the stratosphere.
▪ We use an upwelling-diffusion energy-balance climate model to simulate the effects of greenhouse and solar forcing over the period 1765 to 1985.
▪ The models are developed to simulate the stress train field induced on the living bone by the implant.
■ VERB
use
▪ Greeking-a software device where areas of grey are used to simulate lines of text.
▪ Physicians at Brown University have used a simulated network of medical knowledge to relate information on cases, symptoms, and treatments.
▪ These models, some of which involve hundreds of equations, are then used to simulate the effects of different policies.
▪ Safeway believes that by using a simulated store, a more scholastic environment will be beneficial.
▪ These estimates will be used to simulate the labour supply and income of the proposed reforms.
▪ The parameters in Tables 2 and 3 can now be used to simulate the effects of trade restrictions. 6.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ James felt obliged to simulate reluctance.
▪ The navy's maneuvers were designed to simulate an enemy invasion of the island.
▪ This machine can simulate conditions in space.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It simulates the bit of the search space which is rooted at the current state, and plans an acceptable next move.
▪ So, to simulate fertilisation, it is necessary only to mimic this disruption.
▪ Such low inclinations are inconsistent with attempts to simulate the treefall pattern at the Tunguska site.
▪ Supers fill the stage at every opportunity, choreographed to simulate horror.
▪ That is why they put applicants into simulated situations and watch how they behave.
▪ The relationship between complexity and organization becomes a key question in trying to simulate the processing of sensory inputs.
▪ These models, some of which involve hundreds of equations, are then used to simulate the effects of different policies.
▪ Updated computerized versions make it possible to simulate more closely the work of a sketch artist.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Simulate

Simulate \Sim"u*late\, a. [L. simulatus, p. p. of simulare to simulate; akin to simul at the same time, together, similis like. See Similar, and cf. Dissemble, Semblance.] Feigned; pretended.
--Bale.

Simulate

Simulate \Sim"u*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Simulated; p. pr. & vb. n. Simulating.] To assume the mere appearance of, without the reality; to assume the signs or indications of, falsely; to counterfeit; to feign.

The Puritans, even in the depths of the dungeons to which she had sent them, prayed, and with no simulated fervor, that she might be kept from the dagger of the assassin.
--Macaulay.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
simulate

1620s, "feign, pretend, assume falsely" (implied in simulated), back-formation from simulation or else from Latin simulatus, past participle of simulare "to make like, imitate, copy." Meaning "to use a model to imitate certain conditions for purposes of study or training" is from 1947. Related: Simulating.

Wiktionary
simulate
  1. (context obsolete English) Feigned; pretended. v

  2. To model, replicate, duplicate the behavior, appearance or properties of

WordNet
simulate
  1. v. reproduce someone's behavior or looks; "The mime imitated the passers-by"; "Children often copy their parents or older siblings" [syn: imitate, copy]

  2. create a representation or model of; "The pilots are trained in conditions simulating high-altitude flights" [syn: model]

  3. make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep" [syn: assume, sham, feign]

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "simulate".

Venerable Bede was new-old: reinforced concrete buildings with precast columns, architraves, plinths, caryatids, and whatnot glued on the outside to simulate age.

This all becomes of practical interest with the discovery of how to artificially simulate gravity.

X turned out to be a young man, serious and competent, carrying a computer loaded with software for simulating analog circuits.

The lesions simulated are usually inflammatory in character, such as erythema, vesicular and bullous eruptions, and ulceration of the skin.

By now, I thought I had detected more genuine than simulated modesty in her reactions, and I had no doubt that the emotional excitement of the moment had begun to carry this secretly eager masochist into an actual involvement with her role, one that far transcended the feigned pretense which she had thus far conveyed.

This is left over from the very old days of the Metaverse, before the Monorail existed, when the only way to get around was to walk or to write a piece of ware that simulated a vehicle.

To simulate snow, it had been given the same physical properties as methane, and one sure way to get rid of the stuff was to melt it.

The planners had deliberately packed the recruits tightly together this way to simulate the close quarters that would exist aboard the six Dreadnaughts once Outbound Flight set off on its mission.

This is due to a determined hypothesis that the later stage of the ongoing disease of this Pandemic is that of psychosis simulating in otherwise normal people, that of schizophrenia, paranoia, perhaps violent episodes.

Based on examinations done prior to activation, the machine made a parametric system simulating the mental norm of each member of the crew and used that as a model.

A rider was approaching from the west, coming at an easy trot, looking less like something alive than a horse-and-rider shaped hole in a photomural that was sliding past so as to simulate movement.

There grows in Tartary a singular polypody Fern, of which the hairy foot is easily made to simulate in form a small sheep.

She was blinded by the blood streaming across her face, but she lay there simulating a corpse, and in the night she made her way to the north, bleeding not only from the scalping but from her many wounds.

He simulated envious admiration of known heroes, who meant business, and scorned any of the weak stuff under brandy, and went at it till the bottles were the first to give in.

And when the Tennessee captain sped his F-104 down the runway and high into the clouds, he made a sweeping turn, straightened up, and came roaring down at the simulated carrier at whose stern Claggett waited with two paddles to represent a landing officer.