Emulate vs Learn - What's the difference?
emulate | learn |
To attempt to equal or be the same as.
To copy or imitate, especially a person.
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(obsolete) To feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy.
* 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 146:
(computing) of a program or device: to imitate another program or device
(obsolete) Striving to excel; ambitious; emulous.
* Shakespeare
To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.
To attend a course or other educational activity.
* 1719 ,
To gain knowledge from a bad experience.
To be studying.
To come to know; to become informed of; to find out.
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*:And whan she had serched hym / she fond in the bottome of his wound that therin was poyson / And soo she heled hym/ and therfore Tramtrist cast grete loue to la beale Isoud / for she was at that tyme the fairest mayde and lady of the worlde / And there Tramtryst lerned her to harpe / and she beganne to haue grete fantasye vnto hym
*1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) ,
*:Sweet prince, you learn me noble thankfulness.
*circa 1611 , (William Shakespeare), (Cymbeline), :
*:Have I not been / Thy pupil long? Hast thou not learn’d me how / To make perfumes?
*1993 , The Simpsons , (18 Feb. 1993)
*:That'll learn him to bust my tomater.
As verbs the difference between emulate and learn
is that emulate is to attempt to equal or be the same as while learn is to acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.As an adjective emulate
is striving to excel; ambitious; emulous.emulate
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Verb
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- 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 [...].
See also
* mimic * copy * imitate * simulateAdjective
(en adjective)- A most emulate pride.
learn
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) lernen, from (etyl) . Compare (etyl) lernen.Verb
- For, as he took delight to introduce me, I took delight to learn.
- learn from one's mistakes
- He just learned that he will be sacked.
Usage notes
* See other, dated and regional, sense of below.Synonyms
* (l)Antonyms
* (l) * (l)Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) . Compare Dutch leren, German (m).Verb
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