Assimilate

[ə'sɪmɪleɪt] or [ə'sɪməlet]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) become similar to one's environment; 'Immigrants often want to assimilate quickly'.

(verb.) make similar; 'This country assimilates immigrants very quickly'.

(verb.) become similar in sound; 'The nasal assimilates to the following consonant'.

(verb.) take (gas, light or heat) into a solution.

黛西手打--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.

(v. t.) To liken; to compa/e.

(v. t.) To appropriate and transform or incorporate into the substance of the assimilating body; to absorb or appropriate, as nourishment; as, food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue.

(v. i.) To become similar or like something else.

(v. i.) To change and appropriate nourishment so as to make it a part of the substance of the assimilating body.

(v. i.) To be converted into the substance of the assimilating body; to become incorporated; as, some kinds of food assimilate more readily than others.

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同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Liken, make like, bring to a resemblance.[2]. Digest, turn to one's own substance.

整理:尼古拉斯

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Compare, liken, match, engross, identify, incorporate, absorb, appropriate

ANT:Separate, segregate, part, contrast, reject

錄入:麦克唐纳

解釋/意思:

v.t. to make similar or like to: to convert into a like substance as food in our bodies (with to with).—v.i. to become like or to be incorporated in.—n. Assim′ilability (Coleridge).—adj. Assim′ilable.—n. Assimilā′tion.—adj. Assim′ilātive having the power or tendency to assimilate.

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