SIMULATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does simulate mean? 

• SIMULATE (verb)
  The verb SIMULATE has 3 senses:

1. reproduce someone's behavior or looks

2. create a representation or model of

3. make a pretence of

  Familiarity information: SIMULATE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIMULATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they simulate    ... he / she / it simulates   
Past simple: simulated   
Past participle: simulated   
-ing form: simulating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Reproduce someone's behavior or looks

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

copy; imitate; simulate

Context example:

Children often copy their parents or older siblings

Hypernyms (to "simulate" is one way to...):

reproduce (make a copy or equivalent of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "simulate"):

conform to; follow (behave in accordance or in agreement with)

mock (imitate with mockery and derision)

take off (mimic or imitate in an amusing or satirical manner)

mime; mimic (imitate (a person or manner), especially for satirical effect)

model; pattern (plan or create according to a model or models)

follow; take after (imitate in behavior; take as a model)

emulate (strive to equal or match, especially by imitating)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Create a representation or model of

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

model; simulate

Context example:

The pilots are trained in conditions simulating high-altitude flights

Hypernyms (to "simulate" is one way to...):

re-create (create anew)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

simulation ((computer science) the technique of representing the real world by a computer program)

simulator (a machine that simulates an environment for the purpose of training or research)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Make a pretence of

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

assume; feign; sham; simulate

Context example:

he feigned sleep

Hypernyms (to "simulate" is one way to...):

act; dissemble; pretend (behave unnaturally or affectedly)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "simulate"):

play (pretend to be somebody in the framework of a game or playful activity)

feint (deceive by a mock action)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

simulation (the act of giving a false appearance)

 Context examples 

Epoprostenol sodium directly simulates prostaglandin receptors in arterial vascular smooth muscle, thereby causing vasodilatation.

(Epoprostenol Sodium, NCI Thesaurus)

The aim was to simulate conditions that might be found in the atmospheres of a special class of exoplanets (planets outside our solar system) called "hot Jupiters".

(Cooking up Alien Atmospheres on Earth, NASA)

The visualization simulates the appearance of a black hole where infalling matter has collected into a thin, hot structure called an accretion disk.

(NASA Visualization Shows a Black Hole’s Warped World, NASA)

When simulating what might happen over longer periods, the model predicted relatively small differences in body fat loss with widely varying ratios of carbs to fat.

(Study finds cutting dietary fat reduces body fat more than cutting carbs, NIH)

Issue associated with the inability of device and/or device components to generate a therapeutic simulated heart beat via electrical impulses once arrhythmia is detected.

(Failure to Pace or Properly Pace Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)

Any testing performed that simulates real use situations experienced by users.

(Device Use Testing Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)

The lab tests are a step in simulating the complex environment of an infected wound.

(Clay fights MRSA, other 'superbugs' in wounds, National Science Foundation)

The big surprise was that the yield of nitrate increased when hydrogen was included in the laser-shocked experiments that simulated asteroid impacts.

(Asteroids, Hydrogen Make Great Recipe for Life on Mars, NASA)

Surely that they have done her to death in some way which has deceived the doctor and simulated a natural end—poisoning, perhaps.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To simulate a traumatic brain injury, a weight was dropped onto the brain-like tissue from varying heights.

(Bioengineers create functional 3D brain-like tissue, NIH)