MEANING
1. To try to equal or surpass someone’s achievement or admirable qualities.
2. To reproduce the behavior of another system so that its functions can be carried out on a different platform.
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Words that belong together
- emulate a mentor
- emulate an achievement
On the page
She hoped to emulate her mentor’s patience.
The younger pilot tried to emulate the navigator’s calm judgment.
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Word forms
- Base
- emulate
- Past tense
- emulated
- Past participle
- emulated
- Present participle
- emulating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- emulate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are emulating
- Present perfect
- have/has emulated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been emulating
- Past
- emulated
- Past continuous
- was/were emulating
- Past perfect
- had emulated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been emulating
- Future
- will emulate
- Future continuous
- will be emulating
- Future perfect
- will have emulated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been emulating
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Usage notes
Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: emulate; emulates; emulated; emulated; emulating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: emulates.
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