emulatorn.
/ˈɛmjʊleɪtə/ 1. One who emulates, in good or bad sense.† a. A rival, competitor; also, one who enviously disparages. Obsolete.
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society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > [noun] > competitor or rival
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > disparagement or depreciation > [noun] > one who > envious
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1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. I4v You are friendly emulators in honest fancie.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) i. i. 135 An enuious emulator of euery mans good parts. View more context for this quotation
1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Princesse Elizabeth ii. 61 George Buchanan his emulatour..painted him forth..as more mutable then the camœlion.
1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 54 The emotions which the death of an emulator or competitor produces.
b. A zealous imitator; one who strives to equal the qualities or achievements of another. Const. of.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > one who or that which imitates
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1652 J. Hall tr. Longinus Περι Ὑψους 62 Hyperides is a great Emulatour of Demosthenes.
1741 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses II. App. 30 A happy Emulator of the Eloquence of Cicero.
1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. iii. 322 A diligent emulator of Grocyn..was..Linacre.
1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 152 Emulators and disciples of the culture of the Lacedaemonians.
2. (In the Douay-Rheims Bible.) Used to render Latin æmulator:
a. One who is zealous for a cause, etc.; const. of.
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1582 Bible (Rheims) Gal. i. 14 I..being more aboundantly an emulator of the traditions of my fathers.
1610 Bible (Douay) II. 2 Macc. iv. 2 The..emulatour of the law of God.
b. Applied to God: A ‘jealous’ being, one who brooks no competitor.
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1609 Bible (Douay) I. Exod. xxxiv. 14 God is an emulatour.
3. Computing. A piece of hardware or software used with one device to enable it to emulate another, esp. to enable a computer to run programs written for a different type of computer.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > computer > [noun] > emulator
emulator1965
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1965 Communications ACM 8 753/2 An emulator is a package that includes both special hardware and a complementary set of software.
1965 Communications ACM 8 754/1 The speed of an emulator can be increased if more instructions are added to the emulating machine.
1983 What's New in Computing Jan. 18/2 The remote batch emulator lets the ACT Sirius 1 communicate with equipment that supports one or more members of the IBM family of remote batch entry stations.
1983 Austral. Microcomputer Mag. Sept. 65/1 The emulator divides the system's memory into two sections. One section holds the operating system and whatever applications program is running. The second section of memory is used to emulate a disk drive.
1985 Byte Mar. 404 (heading) An assembly-language emulator program.
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