Emulate vs Eccho - What's the difference?
emulate | eccho |
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
(obsolete) To feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy.
* 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 146:
(computing) of a program or device: to imitate another program or device
(obsolete) Striving to excel; ambitious; emulous.
* Shakespeare
*{{quote-book, year=1676, author=Izaak Walton, title=The Compleat Angler, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Farwel ye guilded follies, pleasing troubles, Farwel ye honour'd rags, ye glorious bubbles; Fame's but a hollow eccho , gold pure clay, Honour the darling but of one short day. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1592, author=R.D., title=Hypnerotomachia, chapter=, edition=
, passage=And suddainly hearing the fall of trees, through the force of a whyrlewinde, & noise of the broken bowghes, with a redoubled and hoarse sound a farre of, and yet brought to the eccho of the water thorow the thick wood, I grew into a new astonishment. }}
As a verb emulate
is to attempt to equal or be the same as.As an adjective emulate
is (obsolete) striving to excel; ambitious; emulous.As a noun eccho is
.emulate
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Verb
(emulat)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.}}
- 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 [...].
See also
* mimic * copy * imitate * simulateAdjective
(en adjective)- A most emulate pride.
eccho
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Noun
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