simulate

First attested in 1652; Borrowed from Latin simulātus, perfect passive participle of simulō (“make like, imitate, copy, represent, feign”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from similis (“like”). See similar.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪm.jʊˌleɪt/

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• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪm.jəˌleɪt/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪm.jʊˌlæɪt/

simulate (third-person singular simple present simulates, present participle simulating, simple past and past participle simulated)

1. To model, replicate, duplicate the behavior, appearance or properties of.

   We will use a smoke machine to simulate the fog you will actually encounter.

   This video game simulates a pinball machine.

• See also Thesaurus:imitate

• simulative
• simulatively

• simulator

• emulate

First attested in c. 1425, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English symulat(e), simulat(e), similat(e) (“feigned; similar”), borrowed from Latin simulātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪm.jʊ.lɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪm.jə.lət/

simulate (comparative more simulate, superlative most simulate)

1. (obsolete) Feigned; pretended.
   • 1545, John Bale, The Image of Both Churches:

     under simulate religion

• “simulate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “simulate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• sultiame

simulate

1. feminine plural of simulato

simulate f pl

1. feminine plural of simulato

simulate

1. inflection of simulare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

• emulasti

simulāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of simulō

• “simulate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

simulate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of simular combined with te