Verb

(emulat)

To attempt to equal or be the same as.

To copy or imitate, especially a person.

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Saj Chowdhury , title=Wolverhampton 1 - 2 Newcastle , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The Magpies are unbeaten and enjoying their best run since 1994, although few would have thought the class of 2011 would come close to emulating their ancestors.}}

(obsolete) To feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy.

* 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 146:

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 [...].

(computing) of a program or device: to imitate another program or device

Verb

(disput)

To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another.

To make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss.

Some residents disputed the proposal, saying it was based more on emotion than fact.

To oppose by argument or assertion; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of.

to dispute assertions or arguments

* Bancroft

to seize goods under the disputed authority of writs of assistance

To strive or contend about; to contest.

* Prescott

to dispute the possession of the ground with the Spaniards

(obsolete) To struggle against; to resist.

* Shakespeare

Dispute it [grief] like a man.