Emulate vs Transmute - What's the difference?
emulate | transmute |
To attempt to equal or be the same as.
To copy or imitate, especially a person.
* {{quote-news
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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
To change, transform or convert one thing to another, or from one state or form to another.
To change, transform or convert to another, or from one state or form to another.
As verbs the difference between emulate and transmute
is that emulate is to attempt to equal or be the same as while transmute is to change, transform or convert one thing to another, or from one state or form to another.As an adjective emulate
is (obsolete) striving to excel; ambitious; emulous.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.
transmute
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Verb
(transmut)- The alchemists tried to transmute base metals to gold.
- Did the base metals transmute to gold?
