Usually means: Imitate to match or surpass.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. emulate: Merriam-Webster
  2. emulate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. emulate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. emulate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. emulate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Emulate, emulate: Wordnik
  7. emulate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. emulate: Wiktionary
  9. emulate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. emulate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. emulate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Emulate, emulate: Dictionary.com
  13. emulate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Emulate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Emulate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. emulate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. emulate: Rhymezone
  18. emulate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. emulate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. emulate: FreeDictionary.org
  21. emulate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. emulate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. emulate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. emulate: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. emulate: CCI Computer
  2. emulate: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Emulate: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

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Definitions from Wiktionary (emulate)

▸ verb:  (now rare) To attempt to equal or be the same as.
▸ verb:  To copy or imitate, especially a person.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy.
▸ verb:  (computing) of a program or device: to imitate another program or device
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Striving to excel; ambitious; emulous.

Similar:
copy, rival, imitate, resemble, mimetize, semble, even, belike, assimulate, equalize, more...

Opposite:
detest, loathe, hate

Types:
copy, mimic, duplicate, reproduce, replicate, more...

Phrases:
emulate a bloodhound, to emulate, emulate a rat, emulate ella mai, emulate bryan, more...

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Similar:
copy, rival, imitate, resemble, mimetize, semble, even, belike, assimulate, equalize, more...

Opposite:
detest, loathe, hate

Types:
copy, mimic, duplicate, reproduce, replicate, more...

Phrases:
emulate a bloodhound, to emulate, emulate a rat, emulate ella mai, emulate bryan, emulate delilah, emulate a limpet, emulate a parrot, emulate a sponge, compete emulate, compete train emulate imitate, more...

Colors:
    silver,     gold,     platinum,     bronze,     copper, more...



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