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▪ I. † ˈemulate, a. Obs. rare—1.
[ad. L. æmulātus pa. pple. of æmulā-ri to rival.]
Ambitious, emulous.
1602Shakes. Ham. i. i. 82 Prick'd on by a most emulate Pride.
▪ II. emulate, v.|ˈɛmjʊleɪt|
Also 7 æmulate.
[f. L. æmulāt- ppl. stem of æmulā-ri to rival.]
1. trans. Of persons: To strive to equal or rival (a person, his achievements or qualities); to copy or imitate with the object of equalling or excelling.
1589Warner Alb. Eng. Prose Addit. (1612) 347 So much doe I emulate, not enuie thy glorie. 1665Boyle Occas. Refl. v. ix. (1675) 330 The disparity of Circumstances betwixt their own Condition, and that of those they æmulate. 1694Dryden To Sir G. Kneller 80 Contemn the bad, and Emulate the best. 1752Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) I. 224 The whole world emulates Athens and Rome. 1883F. M. Peard Contrad. I. 12 When will you emulate Sir Archibald in the art of saying pretty things?
2. Implying some degree of success: To vie with, rival, attain or approach to equality with.
1807G. Chalmers Caledonia I. iii. iii. 341 He emulated the Scottish kings in splendour. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xiii, My royal nephew will soon emulate his father's wisdom. 1872Yeats Growth Comm. 52 Many of the Greek states emulated Tyre in commerce and opulence.
b. Of things: To vie with, rival, equal or closely approach in any quality.
1598Shakes. Merry W. iii. iii. 58, I see how thine eye would emulate the Diamond. 1660Boyle New Exp. Phys. Mech. xxxvii. 307 They were wont..to emulate..the apparition of Light. 1661Boyle Examen iii. (1682) 21 The Corpuscles..tend to..emulate a spring. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Sycomore, The Liquor emulates that of the Birch. 1833Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life III. i. 2 Lady Madalina Palmer is working one [a carpet] which emulates the paintings of Van Huysum.
c. Computing. To reproduce the action of or behave like (a different type of computer) with the aid of hardware or software designed to effect this; to run (a program, etc., written for another type of computer) by this means.
1965Communications Assoc. Computing Machinery VIII. 755/2 The System/360 interrupt routine sets a flag which can be tested as part of the DIL instruction. It then returns to the routine which completes emulating the 7000 series instruction. 1971IEEE Trans. Computers XX. 751/2 This effort has led to the development of microcomputers..with read only control memories containing microprograms that emulate a specific von Neumann-type computer. 1977Harvard Business Rev. Nov.–Dec. 86/1 It is unlikely that competitors will be able to emulate the program. 1983Austral. Microcomputer Mag. Aug. 72/2 Different processors are emulated by changing a personality card. Mice I has 8K of emulation memory. 1983[see emulator 3]. 1984Dr. Dobb's Jrnl. Jan. 76 (heading) Emulate WordStar on TOPS-20. 1985Personal Computer World Feb. 30/1 (Advt.), EP8000 can emulate and program all eproms up to 8K x 8 bytes.
†3. intr. To make it one's ambition, strive in a spirit of rivalry (to do or obtain something). Const. inf. Obs.
1597J. Payne Royal Exch. 40 Emulate to be nerer there good begynnings. 1619H. Hutton Follie's Anat. 49 Vulcan..did not strive, Or emulate to be superlative. 1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. V, ccxvi, He..Emulated more to Dye.
†4. trans. To desire to rival (a person, his fortune, achievements, etc.); hence, to be jealous of, envy, feel a grudge against. Obs.
1611Tourneur Ath. Trag. v. ii, I begin to emulate thy death. 1624Heywood Gunaik. 207 An opposite faction which emulated his goodnesse. 1654Trapp Comm. Ps. lxxiii. 3, I æmulated, and stomached their prosperity.
5. In occasional uses:
†a. ? To woo, contend emulously for (obs.).
¶b. To excite the emulation of. rare—1.
1603Drayton Bar. Wars i. xlvii, We see the early rising Sunne, With his bright Beames to emulate our sight. 1804Monson in Owen Wellesley Disp. 529 Each emulated the other to deeds of glory. |