reproduce someone's behavior or looks; "The mime imitated the passers-by"; "Children often copy their parents or older siblings"
If you simulate an action or a feeling, you pretend that you are doing it or feeling it. They rolled about on the Gilligan Road, simulating a bloodthirsty fight He performed a simulated striptease
To assume the mere appearance of, without the reality; to assume the signs or indications of, falsely; to counterfeit; to feign
make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep"
If you simulate an object, a substance, or a noise, you produce something that looks or sounds like it. The wood had been painted to simulate stone
create a representation or model of; "The pilots are trained in conditions simulating high-altitude flights"
To represent certain features of the behavior of a physical or abstract system by the behavior of another system Note 1: For example, delay lines may be used to simulate propagation delay and phase shift caused by an actual transmission line Note 2: A simulator may imitate only a few of the operations and functions of the unit it simulates Contrast with emulate
make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep
If you simulate a set of conditions, you create them artificially, for example in order to conduct an experiment. The scientist developed one model to simulate a full year of the globe's climate Cars are tested to see how much damage they suffer in simulated crashes