different between emulate vs repeat
emulate
English
Alternative forms
- æmulate (archaic)
Etymology
From Latin aemulor (“to rival, emulate”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??m.j?.le?t/
- Hyphenation: em?u?late
Verb
emulate (third-person singular simple present emulates, present participle emulating, simple past and past participle emulated)
- (now rare) To attempt to equal or be the same as.
- To copy or imitate, especially a person.
- (obsolete) To feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy.
- 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 146:
- But the councell then present emulating my successe, would not thinke it fit to spare me fortie men to be hazzarded in those unknowne regions [...].
- 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 146:
- (computing) of a program or device: to imitate another program or device
Related terms
- emulation
- emulator
- emulous
Translations
Adjective
emulate (comparative more emulate, superlative most emulate)
- (obsolete) Striving to excel; ambitious; emulous.
See also
- mimic
- copy
- imitate
- simulate
Anagrams
- metulae
Italian
Verb
emulate
- second-person plural present indicative of emulare
- second-person plural imperative of emulare
- feminine plural of emulato
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repeat
English
Etymology
From Middle English repeten, from Old French repeter, from Latin repet?, repetere, from the prefix re- (“again”) + peto (“attack, beseech”).
Pronunciation
- (verb) IPA(key): /???pi?t/
- (noun) IPA(key): /???pi?t/, /??i?pi?t/
- Rhymes: -i?t
Verb
repeat (third-person singular simple present repeats, present participle repeating, simple past and past participle repeated)
- (transitive) To do or say again (and again).
- (transitive, medicine, pharmacy) To refill (a prescription).
- (intransitive) To happen again; recur.
- (transitive) To echo the words of (a person).
- (intransitive) To strike the hours, as a watch does.
- (obsolete) To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
- a. 1687, Edmund Waller, The Battel of the Summer Islands
- He […] repeats the danger of the burning town.
- a. 1687, Edmund Waller, The Battel of the Summer Islands
- (law, Scotland) To repay or refund (an excess received).
- (procedure word, military) To call in a previous artillery fire mission with the same ammunition and method either on the coordinates or adjusted either because destruction of the target was insufficient or missed.
- To commit fraud in an election by voting more than once for the same candidate.
Synonyms
- (to do or say again): redo, reiterate, reprise, rework see also Thesaurus:reiterate
- (to happen again): reoccur; see also Thesaurus:repeat
Related terms
- repeatedly
- repeat on
- repeat oneself
- repetition
- repetitive
Translations
Noun
repeat (plural repeats)
- An iteration; a repetition.
- A television program shown after its initial presentation; a rerun.
- (medicine, pharmacy) A refill of a prescription.
- (genetics, biochemistry) A pattern of nucleic acids that occur in multiple copies throughout a genome (or of amino acids in a protein).
- (music) A mark in music notation directing a part to be repeated.
Synonyms
- (iteration; repetition): reiteration, reoccurrence; see also Thesaurus:reoccurrence
Derived terms
- decarepeat
- homorepeat
Translations
See also
- redundant
Anagrams
- Partee, Perate, retape
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