Simulate vs Recreate - What's the difference?
simulate | recreate |
To model, replicate, duplicate the behavior, appearance or properties of
To give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven.
* Dryden
* Dr H. More
(reflexive) To enjoy or entertain oneself.
*, II.ii.3:
* Jeremy Taylor
To take recreation.
To create anew.
As verbs the difference between simulate and recreate
is that simulate is to model, replicate, duplicate the behavior, appearance or properties of while recreate is to give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven or recreate can be to create anew.As an adjective simulate
is (obsolete) feigned; pretended.simulate
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Verb
(simulat)- We will use a smoke machine to simulate the fog you will actually encounter.
Synonyms
* See alsoSee also
* emulateExternal links
* * ----recreate
English
Etymology 1
From the participle stem of Latin recreare'' ‘restore’, from ''re-'' ‘re-’ + ''creare ‘create’.Verb
(recreat)- Painters, when they work on white grounds, place before them colours mixed with blue and green, to recreate their eyes, white wearying the sight more than any.
- These ripe fruits recreate the nostrils with their aromatic scent.
- In Italy, though they bide in cities in winter, which is more gentlemanlike, all the summer they come abroad to their country-houses, to recreate themselves.
- St. John, who recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge