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Definition of Simulate
1. Verb. Reproduce someone's behavior or looks. "Children often copy their parents or older siblings"
Specialized synonyms: Conform To, Follow, Mock, Take Off, Mime, Mimic, Model, Pattern, Follow, Take After, Emulate
Generic synonyms: Reproduce
Derivative terms: Copy, Copying, Imitation, Imitative, Imitator
2. Verb. Create a representation or model of. "The pilots are trained in conditions simulating high-altitude flights"
3. Verb. Make a pretence of. "He feigned sleep"
Generic synonyms: Act, Dissemble, Pretend
Specialized synonyms: Play, Feint
Derivative terms: Feigning, Sham, Shammer, Shammer, Simulation
Definition of Simulate
1. a. Feigned; pretended.
2. v. t. To assume the mere appearance of, without the reality; to assume the signs or indications of, falsely; to counterfeit; to feign.
Definition of Simulate
1. Verb. To model, replicate, duplicate the behavior, appearance or properties of ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Simulate
1. to take on the appearance of [v -LATED, -LATING, -LATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Simulate
Literary usage of Simulate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... as on similar pigments in the wings of the living moth. crustacean, which
rapidly changes so as to simulate the tints of the objects on which they rest. ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... as on similar pigments in the wings of the living moth. crustacean, which
rapidly changes so as to simulate the tints of the objects on which they rest. ..."
3. Military Surgery of the Ear, Nose and Throat by Hanau Wolf Loeb, 1865-, Hanau Wolf Loeb (1918)
"Introduction of adventitious substances to simulate disease. 3. ... Powders,
chalk and white of an egg have been used to simulate otorrhea. ..."
4. Military Surgery of the Ear, Nose and Throat by Hanau Wolf Loeb, 1865- (1918)
"Introduction of adventitious substances to simulate disease. 3. ... Powders,
chalk and white of an egg have been used to simulate otorrhea. ..."
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