Emulate vs Repeat - What's the difference?
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To attempt to equal or be the same as.
To copy or imitate, especially a person.
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(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
(intransitive) To do or say again (and again).
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(obsolete) To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
(legal, Scotland) To repay or refund (an excess received).
An iteration; a repetition.
A television program shown after its initial presentation -- particularly many weeks after its initial presentation; a rerun.
Patterns of nucleid acids that occur in multiple copies throughout the genome.
Emulate is a related term of repeat.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between emulate and repeat
is that emulate is (obsolete) striving to excel; ambitious; emulous while repeat is (obsolete) to make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.As verbs the difference between emulate and repeat
is that emulate is to attempt to equal or be the same as while repeat is (intransitive) to do or say again (and again).As an adjective emulate
is (obsolete) striving to excel; ambitious; emulous.As a noun repeat is
an iteration; a repetition.emulate
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic)Verb
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- 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.
repeat
English
Verb
(en verb)- (Waller)
Noun
(en noun)- We gave up after the third repeat because it got boring.