Emulation vs Tantamount - What's the difference?
emulation | tantamount |
The endeavor or desire to equal or excel someone else in qualities or actions.
(obsolete) Jealous rivalry; envy; envious contention.
*, New York Review Books 2001, p.263:
*:Scarce two gentlemen dwell together in the country […], but there is emulation betwixt them and their servants, some quarrel or some grudge betwixt their wives or children […].
(computing) Running a program or other software designed for a different system.
(obsolete) Something which has the same value or amount (as something else).
* 1977 , the Last Essays of Maurice Hewlett , page 42:
Equivalent in meaning or effect.
* De Quincey
* 1981 , Del Martin, Battered Wives (page 90)
As nouns the difference between emulation and tantamount
is that emulation is rivalry, competition while tantamount is (obsolete) something which has the same value or amount (as something else).As a verb tantamount is
(obsolete) to amount to as much; to be equivalent.As an adjective tantamount is
equivalent in meaning or effect.emulation
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- ... is a great figure who is worthy of respect and emulation .
Anagrams
*tantamount
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Noun
(en noun)- For end thereof, not despondency but madness : for when Cossey understood that Hobday had called his wife a tantamount , he waited for him outside, and gave him what he called a pair of clippers over the ear.
Adjective
(en adjective)- It's tantamount to fraud.
- In this view, disagreement and treason are tantamount .
- the certainty that delay, under these circumstances, was tantamount to ruin
- expecting the woman to take her attacker into physical custody is tantamount to preventing the arrest. If she could handle him, she probably would not need to call the police in the first place.