Whet vs Simulate - What's the difference?
whet | simulate |
To hone or rub on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening – see whetstone.
* Milton
* Byron
To stimulate or make more keen.
* Shakespeare
* 2003-10-20 , Naomi Wolf,
The act of whetting something.
That which whets or sharpens; especially, an appetizer.
* Spectator
* sips, drams, and whets
To model, replicate, duplicate the behavior, appearance or properties of
As verbs the difference between whet and simulate
is that whet is to hone or rub on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening – see whetstone while simulate is to model, replicate, duplicate the behavior, appearance or properties of.As a noun whet
is the act of whetting something.As an adjective simulate is
(obsolete) feigned; pretended.whet
English
Verb
(whett)- The mower whets his scythe.
- Here roams the wolf, the eagle whets his beak.
- to whet one's appetite or one's courage
- Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, / I have not slept.
The Porn Myth], [http://nymag.com/ New York Magazine
- In the end, porn doesn’t whet men’s appetites—it turns them off the real thing.
Derived terms
* whetstoneNoun
(en noun)Anagrams
*simulate
English
Verb
(simulat)- We will use a smoke machine to simulate the fog you will actually encounter.
