All 12 Uses
simulate
in
Underworld, by DeLillo
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- Listen to this, she wears an armband, you won't believe this—they had Apartheid Simulation Day at her school.†
*simulation = something that is not real, but is made to imitate or behave like something that is
- They attempt to simulate the culture of apartheid.†
- The official simulation lasted one day but she's been doing this for weeks now.†
simulation = something that is not real, but is made to imitate or behave like something that is
- I told her about Apartheid Simulation Day, standing in the doorway.†
- They were involved in exploratory research and didn't know exactly what happened to their findings, their simulations, the results they discovered or predicted.†
simulations = things that are not real, bur are made to imitate or behave like other things
- They appeared to be tanks and jeeps, some trucks as well, but they were flimsy somehow, unbulky and perfunctory, showing squared-off contours and a cheap gleam—simulated tactical targets.†
simulated = made an imitation or representation of
- At Army Intelligence School he did double shifts of classwork, surrounded every edgy minute by combat analysts, language experts, counterintelligence guys snooping out drug use, by agent trainees on simulated missions, a spook for every body function.†
- Put out simulated garbage.†
- She began to understand that the riot out there, if that's what it was, was being augmented and improved by a simulated riot on the radio, an audio montage of gunfire, screams, sirens, klaxons and intermittent bulletins real and possibly not.†
- How Louis comes strutting out of bombardier school and finds himself ere wing on a B-52 at twenty-six thousand feet over the Nevada Test Site, simulating the release of a fifty-kiloton nuclear bomb.†
simulating = making an imitation or representation of
- Simulating, mind you, while an actual device of this exact magnitude is meanwhile being detonated from the shot tower directly beneath the aircraft.†
- They have perfected a form of simulated human waste in order to test diapers and other protective garments.†
simulated = made an imitation or representation of
Definitions:
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(1)
(simulate) make an imitation or representation of
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)