emulate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To copy or imitate, especially a person.

   People are endlessly fascinating, even if you'd never want to emulate them.

2. 2
   verb

   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 [...].

3. 3
   adj

   Striving to excel, ambitious, emulous.

   That can I, At leaſt the whiſper goes ſo : Our laſt King, Whoſe Image euen but novv appear'd to vs, VVas (as you know) by Fortinbras of Norvvay, (Thereto prick’d on by a moſt emulate Pride) Dar’d to the Combate.

4. 4
   verb

   compete with successfully

5. 5
   verb

   imitate the function of (another system), as by modifying the hardware or the software

6. 6
   verb

   strive to equal or match, especially by imitating

7. 7
   verb

   To attempt to equal or be the same as.

8. 8
   verb

   of a program or device: to imitate another program or device

Etymology

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).