simul

Abbreviation of simultaneous.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪməl/

simul (plural simuls)

1. (gaming) An exhibition in which one (typically much stronger) player plays several games at the same time against different opponents.
   • 1969, Anthony Glyn, The Dragon Variation, page 96:

     We're not just starting with Round 1. We're kicking off with a simul. Four simuls to be exact.

   • 1985, Daryl Lane, William Vernon, David Carson, The Sound of Wonder, page 80:

     He could have organized a simul with a rat without blinking an eye.

   • 2003, J.C. Hallman, The Chess Artist, page 275:

     I saw Glenn wrapping up his speech, and told Baynes to come back that evening for the simul.

• limus, mulis

sima (“smooth”) +‎ -ul (verb-forming suffix)

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃimul]
• Hyphenation: si‧mul
• Rhymes: -ul

simul

1. (intransitive, of a surface, material) to become smooth
2. (intransitive, of clothing, hair, skin) to fit something tight
3. (intransitive) to snuggle up, cuddle up, to cling (to someone: -hoz/-hez/-höz)
4. (intransitive, figuratively) to conform, accommodate, adapt to, fit in somewhere

(With verbal prefixes):

• simul in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Old Latin neuter of similis (with u before l pinguis, i.e. [ɫ]).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.mul/, [ˈs̠ɪmʊɫ̪]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.mul/, [ˈsiːmul]

simul (not comparable)

1. At the same time; simultaneously
2. simul … simul: and at the same time; and also; both … and (at once); together; not only ... but at the same time
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.513-514:

     Obstipuit simul ipse simul perculsus Achātēs
     laetitiāque metūque

     Not only [Aeneas] himself was astounded, but at the same time Achates had been struck with both joy and fear.
     (or, more concisely:)
     [Aeneas] and Achates both were astonished, stricken with joy and fear.

3. together
   • 43 BCE – c. 17 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.403-404:

     natā simul, moritūra simul, simul īte sub undās corpora!

     Born together, about to die together, together [your] bodies go beneath the waves!
     (Twin babes Romulus and Remus are abandoned along the banks of the Tiber.)

4. As soon as.

• simultās
• simultāneus (Mediaeval Latin)

• “simul”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• simul in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• simul in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

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simul f (genitive simlar)

1. (poetic) a hag, witch

• “simul”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press