Simulate
['sɪmjʊleɪt] or ['sɪmjulet]
Definition
(verb.) make a pretence of; 'She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger'; 'he feigned sleep'.
Checked by Abby--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Feigned; pretended.
(v. t.) To assume the mere appearance of, without the reality; to assume the signs or indications of, falsely; to counterfeit; to feign.
Checker: Lowell
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Feign, counterfeit, act, sham, affect, pretend.
Checker: Sumner
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Feign, counterfeit, pretend, impersonate, assume
ANT:Disresemble, discard, misrepresent, mis-exhibit, misbeseem
Typist: Oliver
Definition
v.t. to imitate: to counterfeit: to pretend: to assume the appearance of without the reality.—adjs. Sim′ulant simulating: replacing or having the form or appearance of esp. in biology; Sim′ular counterfeit feigned.—n. one who pretends to be what he is not.—ns. Simulā′tion the act of simulating or putting on what is not true: imitation in form of one word by another: resemblance similarity; Sim′ulātor one who simulates.—adj. Sim′ulātory.
Editor: Orville
Examples
- Benzoate of soda, and salicylic acid are the chemicals most widely employed for this purpose, with coal-tar dyes to simulate the natural color of the fruit. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- But it is indispensable to discriminate between genuine and simulated or mock problems. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Fitch’s first boat employed a system of paddles suspended by their handles from cranks, which, in revolving, gave the paddles a motion simulating that which the Indian imparts to his paddle. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- A curved eye-pointed needle was carried at the end of a pendent vibrating lever, which had a motion simulating that of a pick-ax in the hands of a workman. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It simulates the style of the latter. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- As a general rule, Edison does not get genuinely angry at mistakes and other human weaknesses of his subordinates; at best he merely simulates anger. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Or rather than a somnambulist, let us say by a corpse that magically simulates a kind of life. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typed by Bush