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单词 simulate
释义

Definition of simulate in English:

simulate

verb ˈsɪmjʊleɪtˈsɪmjəˌleɪt
[with object]
  • 1Imitate the appearance or character of.

    模仿

    red ochre intended to simulate blood

    用来仿造血的赭石。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • An open label design was chosen to simulate the conditions under which a healthcare provider or migraine patient might introduce a new therapy.
    • Students simulating minor injuries told The Carillon it had been an interesting experience.
    • The difficulty in communication is simulated by the one move/piece per turn restriction.
    • Under the opulent chandelier of the Continental Hotel, well-heeled characters try to simulate bourgeois normality in a world of chaotic street battles and high-level skulduggery.
    • Daily activities often focus on communication or simulate situations for participants to experience.
    • Pity the student found with a pocket knife, a table knife in his lunch sack or even a playful boy who might point his finger at his friend simulating a gun.
    • But the dead giveaway on almost any of these fraudulent emails is not the painstakingly simulated appearance or the sophisticated coding, but the grammar!
    • To simulate conditions out on a boat, they read only the instructions attached to the jacket, not the entire user's manual.
    • Instead of having them don fake beards to simulate age, he allows their youthful appetite for experiment to emerge.
    • The grid simulates the appearance of individual panes of glass, and also offers the advantage of easy removability to simplify both painting and cleaning.
    • Concrete countertops and concrete carved to simulate rockwork are some of the more interesting and high-profile applications of decorative concrete.
    • Thus, parts of long destroyed Jewish community life were visually simulated, momentarily recreated.
    • Online communities are especially addictive for children, because it simulates a level of control in their lives that they don't actually have.
    • In a first for a TV series, the actors were filmed on parabolic flights to simulate zero gravity conditions so that they really are floating weightless in some of the scenes.
    • Yeast cells can be mistaken for red blood cells since they have a double refractile wall which may simulate the donut appearance of red cells.
    • His movies simulate one of the least pretentious activities of all - people-watching.
    • But if we make the duration large enough, we're simulating a temperature close to zero.
    • People might call them simulations, but since we're not necessarily simulating anything real I prefer to call them experiments.
    • He explains that the video was supposed to go through a film filter, simulating the appearance of film.
    • A series of fans help even out the temperature and simulate a natural growing environment, a series of lights prevents dormancy and a series of sensors control the irrigation system.
    Synonyms
    imitate, reproduce, replicate, duplicate, mimic, parallel, be a mock-up of
    artificial, imitation, fake, false, faux, mock, synthetic, man-made, manufactured, ersatz, plastic
    1. 1.1 Pretend to have or feel (an emotion)
      假装(情感)
      it was impossible to force a smile, to simulate pleasure

      不可能强露微笑,假装快乐。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • With a slogan in the imperative for every page, each designed to stimulate or simulate happiness, the calendar is a study in conventional contentment.
      • She simulates affection for him.
      • It's not easy to simulate their inner confidence while on national television, but it won't hurt to try.
      • The spaces are designed to make the visitor feel disoriented, to simulate the feeling of those who were exiled.
      • Here's how it goes: in live theatre, you're in the same physical space as people who are simulating fury or misery or excitement or love.
      • I really enjoyed watching curling during the Winter Olympics and I feel that Winter Sports did a superb job of simulating the excitement of this intoxicating sport.
      • The message seems to be that it's inhuman to torture a nonhuman who simulates human emotion convincingly enough.
      • He tried to simulate emotions so that Ant would not become too suspicious.
      • Spielberg's films have the advantage of comparison, between live actors, who simulate terror, and monstrous reptiles that look so real you hold your breath when close to them.
      • At best, they claim, clever programming might allow it to simulate human emotions, but these would just be clever fakes.
      • Don't get emotional, though it isn't necessarily bad to simulate some emotion in order to change an opponent's behavior.
      • However, we are at least satisfied that the distress was not simulated.
      • In the end, simulated excitement was an apt metaphor for the Genies.
      • One wonders why it is not said that the pleasure is simulated.
      • Where once we had professional mourners to simulate grief on behalf of the vastly relieved, we now have mute indifference.
      Synonyms
      feign, pretend, fake, sham, affect, put on, counterfeit, go through the motions of, give the appearance of
      feigned, fake, mock, pretended, affected, assumed, counterfeit, sham, insincere, not genuine, false, bogus, spurious
      informal pretend, put-on, phoney
      British informal, dated cod
    2. 1.2 Produce a computer model of.
      计算机模拟
      future population changes were simulated by computer

      用计算机模拟未来人口变化。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • The constructive simulation is a computer model that simulates the roles of large numbers of participants on the battlefield.
      • Other researchers already had made some progress simulating turbulence with powerful computer models.
      • Several computer models, simulating the movement of dust in the atmosphere, were used to track its journey in this study.
      • To identify the best way to control the cantilever, the researchers used computer models to simulate both chemically and electrically based switching mechanisms.
      • In 1997, Governato designed a computer model to simulate evolution of the universe from the big bang until the present.

Derivatives

  • simulative

  • adjective ˈsɪmjʊlətɪv
    • It is a method for providing a storage medium for a simulative golf game program.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • There was a time that historical themes in games were the exclusive territory of the simulative.
      • Thus, the simulative effect of chilling is interpreted as a reduction of these interactions at low temperature.
      • Since provision of cryptographic security is no longer a problem, even in the tactical echelon, the damage to a C & C system and activities of forces can be minimized through the use of cryptography and simulative deception.
      • In this work the free energy difference related to the dissociation of doubly mutated dimeric Cu, Zn superoxide dismutase has been evaluated experimentally and through a simulative approach.

Origin

Mid 17th century (earlier (Middle English) as simulation): from Latin simulat- 'copied, represented', from the verb simulare, from similis 'like'.

Rhymes

stimulate

Definition of simulate in US English:

simulate

verbˈsɪmjəˌleɪtˈsimyəˌlāt
[with object]
  • 1Imitate the appearance or character of.

    模仿

    red ocher intended to simulate blood

    用来仿造血的赭石。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • But the dead giveaway on almost any of these fraudulent emails is not the painstakingly simulated appearance or the sophisticated coding, but the grammar!
    • Thus, parts of long destroyed Jewish community life were visually simulated, momentarily recreated.
    • Concrete countertops and concrete carved to simulate rockwork are some of the more interesting and high-profile applications of decorative concrete.
    • An open label design was chosen to simulate the conditions under which a healthcare provider or migraine patient might introduce a new therapy.
    • Online communities are especially addictive for children, because it simulates a level of control in their lives that they don't actually have.
    • In a first for a TV series, the actors were filmed on parabolic flights to simulate zero gravity conditions so that they really are floating weightless in some of the scenes.
    • But if we make the duration large enough, we're simulating a temperature close to zero.
    • Daily activities often focus on communication or simulate situations for participants to experience.
    • Students simulating minor injuries told The Carillon it had been an interesting experience.
    • Under the opulent chandelier of the Continental Hotel, well-heeled characters try to simulate bourgeois normality in a world of chaotic street battles and high-level skulduggery.
    • People might call them simulations, but since we're not necessarily simulating anything real I prefer to call them experiments.
    • Yeast cells can be mistaken for red blood cells since they have a double refractile wall which may simulate the donut appearance of red cells.
    • He explains that the video was supposed to go through a film filter, simulating the appearance of film.
    • The difficulty in communication is simulated by the one move/piece per turn restriction.
    • To simulate conditions out on a boat, they read only the instructions attached to the jacket, not the entire user's manual.
    • Pity the student found with a pocket knife, a table knife in his lunch sack or even a playful boy who might point his finger at his friend simulating a gun.
    • His movies simulate one of the least pretentious activities of all - people-watching.
    • Instead of having them don fake beards to simulate age, he allows their youthful appetite for experiment to emerge.
    • The grid simulates the appearance of individual panes of glass, and also offers the advantage of easy removability to simplify both painting and cleaning.
    • A series of fans help even out the temperature and simulate a natural growing environment, a series of lights prevents dormancy and a series of sensors control the irrigation system.
    Synonyms
    imitate, reproduce, replicate, duplicate, mimic, parallel, be a mock-up of
    artificial, imitation, fake, false, faux, mock, synthetic, man-made, manufactured, ersatz, plastic
    1. 1.1 Pretend to have or feel (an emotion)
      假装(情感)
      it was impossible to force a smile, to simulate pleasure

      不可能强露微笑,假装快乐。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • He tried to simulate emotions so that Ant would not become too suspicious.
      • In the end, simulated excitement was an apt metaphor for the Genies.
      • The message seems to be that it's inhuman to torture a nonhuman who simulates human emotion convincingly enough.
      • However, we are at least satisfied that the distress was not simulated.
      • It's not easy to simulate their inner confidence while on national television, but it won't hurt to try.
      • Don't get emotional, though it isn't necessarily bad to simulate some emotion in order to change an opponent's behavior.
      • The spaces are designed to make the visitor feel disoriented, to simulate the feeling of those who were exiled.
      • She simulates affection for him.
      • With a slogan in the imperative for every page, each designed to stimulate or simulate happiness, the calendar is a study in conventional contentment.
      • Spielberg's films have the advantage of comparison, between live actors, who simulate terror, and monstrous reptiles that look so real you hold your breath when close to them.
      • At best, they claim, clever programming might allow it to simulate human emotions, but these would just be clever fakes.
      • I really enjoyed watching curling during the Winter Olympics and I feel that Winter Sports did a superb job of simulating the excitement of this intoxicating sport.
      • Here's how it goes: in live theatre, you're in the same physical space as people who are simulating fury or misery or excitement or love.
      • Where once we had professional mourners to simulate grief on behalf of the vastly relieved, we now have mute indifference.
      • One wonders why it is not said that the pleasure is simulated.
      Synonyms
      feign, pretend, fake, sham, affect, put on, counterfeit, go through the motions of, give the appearance of
      feigned, fake, mock, pretended, affected, assumed, counterfeit, sham, insincere, not genuine, false, bogus, spurious
    2. 1.2 Produce a computer model of.
      计算机模拟
      future population changes were simulated by computer

      用计算机模拟未来人口变化。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • To identify the best way to control the cantilever, the researchers used computer models to simulate both chemically and electrically based switching mechanisms.
      • Several computer models, simulating the movement of dust in the atmosphere, were used to track its journey in this study.
      • Other researchers already had made some progress simulating turbulence with powerful computer models.
      • In 1997, Governato designed a computer model to simulate evolution of the universe from the big bang until the present.
      • The constructive simulation is a computer model that simulates the roles of large numbers of participants on the battlefield.

Origin

Mid 17th century (earlier ( Middle English) as simulation): from Latin simulat- ‘copied, represented’, from the verb simulare, from similis ‘like’.

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