Assimilate
[ə'sɪmɪleɪt] or [ə'sɪməlet]
Definition
(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.
Edited by Daisy--From WordNet
Definition
(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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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Liken, make like, bring to a resemblance.[2]. Digest, turn to one's own substance.
Editor: Nicolas
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Compare, liken, match, engross, identify, incorporate, absorb, appropriate
ANT:Separate, segregate, part, contrast, reject
Checker: McDonald
Definition
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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Examples
- Those two orders the church did assimilate and use, though with a little violence in the case of the former. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Was that also to assimilate Europe and Asia, or was it to make himself independent of his Macedonians? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Mine is not the nature easily to find a duplicate or likely to assimilate with a contrast. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Our tempers never can assimilate, and I will be as free as the air we breathe; but you may, indeed you must, come and visit me. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Any state obsessed by traditions of an aggressive foreign policy will be difficult to assimilate into a world combination. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Partly the Huns were civilized and assimilated by the Chinese. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- First, a complex civilization is too complex to be assimilated in toto. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In this case, the earlier presentations constitute the material to which the later are to be assimilated. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- To _say_ anything on the subject, to _hint_ at my discovery, had not suited my habits of thought, or assimilated with my system of feeling. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Thus imparting knowledge gets assimilated to a purely physical process. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- They seem, for instance, to have broken up and assimilated the Hittite civilization, which was probably pre-Aryan in its origin. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Ill-assimilated as the two were in age, sex, pursuits, &c. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- We shall have put you back again into something assimilating to your nervous condition on the birthday night. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Observe the dyer's hand, assimilating itself to what it works in,--or would work in, if anybody would give it anything to do. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Middlemarch, in fact, counted on swallowing Lydgate and assimilating him very comfortably. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There you sit, sir, as if you had an unlimited capacity of assimilating the flagrant article! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Checker: Wyatt