Simulate vs Resemble - What's the difference?
simulate | resemble |
To model, replicate, duplicate the behavior, appearance or properties of
(transitive) To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.
* Shakespeare
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To compare; to regard as similar, to liken.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:
(obsolete) To counterfeit; to imitate.
* Holland
(obsolete) To cause to imitate or be like; to make similar.
As verbs the difference between simulate and resemble
is that simulate is to model, replicate, duplicate the behavior, appearance or properties of while resemble is To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.As an adjective simulate
is feigned; pretended.simulate
English
Verb
(simulat)- We will use a smoke machine to simulate the fog you will actually encounter.
Synonyms
* See alsoSee also
* emulateExternal links
* * ----resemble
English
Verb
- We will resemble you in that.
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- But what you've just described does resemble a person of that kind.
- The twins resemble each other.
- And th'other all yclad in garments light, / Discolour'd like to womanish disguise, / He did resemble to his Ladie bright [...].
- They can so well resemble man's speech.