Definitions for emulates

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emulates em·u·late

Spelling: [verb em-yuh-leyt; adjective Emulates is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 347 anagrams from letters in emulates (aeelmstu).

Definitions for emulates

adjective

1. Obsolete. emulous.

verb (used with object)

1. to try to equal or excel; imitate with effort to equal or surpass:
2. to rival with some degree of success:
3. Computers. to imitate (a particular computer system) by using a software system, often including a microprogram or another computer that enables it to do the same work, run the same programs, etc., as the first. to replace (software) with hardware to perform the same task.

Origin of emulates

1580-90; Latin aemulātus, past participle of aemulārī to rival. See emulous, -ate¹

Examples for emulates

As you exit your teenage years, are there artist you would like to emulate?

In Chicago, you have rappers like Chief Keef posing with guns, and the young kids there emulate that.

The Prince praised the deeds of his ancestors, and called upon him to emulate them.

"And one that an Englishman may do well to emulate," returned Bluewater.

This is not an example that current governments and institutions should emulate.

Impudently she strove to emulate his coolness, but did not completely succeed.

A role model is someone whose behaviors one seeks to emulate.

He determined to emulate Windsor, and he sent for Sir Carte.

The experience is intended to emulate being taken hostage, which feels strange in these very real ISIS horror-drenched times.

But Straws was not called upon to emulate this classic example.