Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To have or take on the appearance, sound, or character of; imitate: synonym: imitate.
- transitive verb To make in imitation of or as a substitute for.
- transitive verb To make a pretense of; feign.
- transitive verb To create a representation or model of (a physical system or particular situation, for example).
from The Century Dictionary.
- To assume the appearance of, without having the reality; feign; counterfeit; pretend.
- To act the part of; imitate; be like; resemble.
- Specifically— In phonology, to imitate in form. See
simulation , 2. - In biology, to imitate or mimic; resemble by way of protective mimicry: as, some insects simulate flowers or leaves. See
mimicry , 3. - Feigned; pretended.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To assume the mere appearance of, without the reality; to assume the signs or indications of, falsely; to counterfeit; to feign.
- adjective Feigned; pretended.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
model ,replicate , duplicate the behavior, appearance or properties of
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make a pretence of
- verb create a representation or model of
- verb reproduce someone's behavior or looks
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Frasca says that to simulate is to model a (source) system through a different system which maintains to somebody some of the behaviors of the original system. [
A post for Xenia: Simulation and an apologetic explanation of Super Columbine Massacre RPG Ben Abraham 2008
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Frasca says that to simulate is to model a (source) system through a different system which maintains to somebody some of the behaviors of the original system. [
Archive 2008-06-01 Ben Abraham 2008
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It could as well have been processed wood pulp, or peanut shells, or coffee bean hulls, made in patented ways to "simulate" - tobacco "" that is, to lie by its appearance.
Our Stolen Evidence...Against the Pesticide/Dioxin Cartel 2008
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I use these markers to create this red region, which is the part that I want to make a ringtone out of, and I hit this button called simulate ringtone just to check it.
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I use these markers to create this red region, which is the part that I want to make a ringtone out of, and I hit this button called simulate ringtone just to check it.
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When the list has been built up, you just call simulate on each widget.
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If we had multiple widgets, we could call simulate using the same set of events.
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What we ` re going to demonstrate, too, is that here in the studio are two debris piles and we ` re going to kind of simulate how the dogs can be effective in a landfill even though the challenges are there.
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It does not "simulate" drowning -- IT IS DROWNING.
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For instance, we have computer games in our interactive newsroom that let people kind of simulate the process of reporting a story or going out to get a dramatic river rescue photograph or you can even do something like we're doing right here.
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