Emulate vs Travesty - 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
An absurd or grotesque misrepresentation.
* De Quincey
A parody or stylistic imitation.
(pejorative) A grossly inferior imitation.
To make a travesty of; to parody.
Emulate is a related term of travesty.
As verbs the difference between emulate and travesty
is that emulate is to attempt to equal or be the same as while travesty is to make a travesty of; to parody.As an adjective emulate
is (obsolete) striving to excel; ambitious; emulous.As a noun travesty is
an absurd or grotesque misrepresentation.emulate
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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.
travesty
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Noun
(travesties)- The second edition is not a recast, but absolutely a travesty of the first.
- A battlefield trial is a travesty of justice.