Looking vs Emulate - What's the difference?
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* 1988 September 12, New York Magazine , page 226
(obsolete) The act of one who looks; a glance.
(obsolete) The manner in which one looks; appearance; countenance.
* Chaucer
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
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between looking and emulate
is that looking is (obsolete) the manner in which one looks; appearance; countenance while emulate is (obsolete) striving to excel; ambitious; emulous.As verbs the difference between looking and emulate
is that looking is while emulate is to attempt to equal or be the same as.As a noun looking
is (obsolete) the act of one who looks; a glance.As an adjective emulate is
(obsolete) striving to excel; ambitious; emulous.looking
English
Verb
(head)George Goodchild
- Good-Looking', Funny Guy — (Not funny-' looking , good guy), 36, Jewish, athletic.
Derived terms
* good-looking * looking glassNoun
(en noun)- All dreary was his cheer and his looking .
Statistics
*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.