emulate
Striving to excel, ambitious, emulous.
Adjective
- Striving to excel, ambitious, emulous.
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Origin
First attested in 1586; borrowed from Latin aemulātus, perfect active participle of Latin aemulor (“to rival, emulate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
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- To attempt to equal or be the same as.
- To copy or imitate, especially a person.
- People are endlessly fascinating, even if you'd never want to emulate them.
- 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...
- To 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...
- of a program or device: to imitate another program or device
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emulable emulatable emulation emulative emulator emulatory unemulated