Immolate vs. Emulate — What's the Difference?

To kill (an animal, for instance) as a religious sacrifice.

Emulate, Inc. (Emulate) is a startup company that is commercializing Organs-on-Chips technology—a human cell-based technology that recreates organ-level function to model organs in healthy and diseased states.

To kill, especially by fire

To strive to equal or excel, especially through imitation

To kill as a sacrifice.

To compete with successfully; approach or attain equality with.

To destroy, especially by fire.

(Computers) To imitate the function of (another system), as by modifications to hardware or software that allow the imitating system to accept the same data, execute the same programs, and achieve the same results as the imitated system.

To sacrifice; to offer in sacrifice; to kill, as a sacrificial victim.

To attempt to equal or be the same as.

To destroy by fire.

To copy or imitate, especially a person.

Offer as a sacrifice by killing or by giving up to destruction;

(obsolete) To feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy.

(computing) of a program or device: to imitate another program or device

(obsolete) Striving to excel; ambitious; emulous.

Striving to excel; ambitious; emulous.

To strive to equal or to excel in qualities or actions; to imitate, with a view to equal or to outdo, to vie with; to rival; as, to emulate the good and the great.

Strive to equal or match, especially by imitating;

Imitate the function of (another system), as by modifying the hardware or the software

Compete with successfully; approach or reach equality with;