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simular — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • play verb To engage in an activity purely for fun or recreation.
  • pretend verb To act as if something is true or real when it isn't, in order to deceive or as part of play.
  • simulate verb To imitate or reproduce the appearance, behaviour, or conditions of something, often for testing or training purposes.

Senses

simular is used for these senses in English:

  • game out (idiomatic) To run through scenarios to determine what will happen given certain decisions; to play out possibilities; to examine several ideas to come up with their likeliest end results.
  • play To give a false appearance of being; to pretend to be.
  • pretend (transitive, obsolete) To intend; to design, to plot; to attempt.
  • roleplay (transitive) To act as a character as part of a fantasy, especially with a group.
  • simulate To model, replicate, duplicate the behavior, appearance or properties of.

play — full definition

  1. verb To engage in an activity purely for fun or recreation.
  2. verb To take part in a sport or game.
  3. verb To perform music, or operate a device so that it produces sound or video.
  4. verb To act the part of a character in a film, play, or performance.
  5. noun A dramatic work written for actors to perform on stage.

pretend — full definition

  1. verb To act as if something is true or real when it isn't, in order to deceive or as part of play.
  2. adj Not genuine; imaginary or made up as part of a game.

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