Simulate vs Fake - What's the difference?
simulate | fake |
To model, replicate, duplicate the behavior, appearance or properties of
Not real; false, fraudulent.
Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
A trick; a swindle.
(soccer) Move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage when dribbling an opponent.
To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
To make; to construct; to do. (rfexample)
To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it.
To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.
(nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
(nautical) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form, to prevent twisting when running out.
Fake is a synonym of simulate.
As verbs the difference between simulate and fake
is that simulate is to model, replicate, duplicate the behavior, appearance or properties of while fake is to cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.As adjectives the difference between simulate and fake
is that simulate is feigned; pretended while fake is not real; false, fraudulent.As a noun fake is
something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.simulate
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Verb
(simulat)- We will use a smoke machine to simulate the fog you will actually encounter.
Synonyms
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Etymology 1
(wikipedia fake) The origin is not known with certainty, although first attested in 1775Adjective
(en-adj)- Which fur coat looks fake ?