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Simulate vs Assimulate - What's the difference?

simulate | assimulate |

In obsolete terms the difference between simulate and assimulate

is that simulate is feigned; pretended while assimulate is to feign; to counterfeit; to simulate.

As an adjective simulate

is feigned; pretended.

simulate

English

Verb

(simulat)
  • To model, replicate, duplicate the behavior, appearance or properties of
    • We will use a smoke machine to simulate the fog you will actually encounter.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * similar * similarity * simile * simulacrum * simuland * simulant * simulation * simulator * dissimulate

    See also

    * emulate

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Feigned; pretended.
    • (Bale)

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    assimulate

    English

    Verb

    (assimulat)
  • (obsolete) To assimilate.
  • * 1857 , Andrew Jackson Davis, The great harmonia: Volume 4 (page 54)
    • You will remember the exact analogy — that trees grow by attracting and assimulating to themselves the terrestrial atmosphere which is thrown from all the planets
  • (obsolete) To feign; to counterfeit; to simulate.
    • (Blount)
    (Webster 1913) ----