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Difference Between Assimulate and Assimilate

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Assimulate

(obsolete) To assimilate.

Assimilate

To consume and incorporate (nutrients) into the body after digestion.

Assimulate

(obsolete) To feign; to counterfeit; to simulate.

Assimilate

To transform (food) into living tissue by the process of anabolism; metabolize constructively.

Assimulate

To feign; to counterfeit; to simulate; to resemble.
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Assimilate

To incorporate and absorb into the mind
Assimilate knowledge.

Assimulate

To assimilate.

Assimilate

To make similar; cause to resemble.

Assimilate

(Linguistics) To alter (a sound) by assimilation.

Assimilate

To absorb (immigrants or a culturally distinct group) into the prevailing culture.
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Assimilate

To become assimilated.

Assimilate

(transitive) To incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion.
Food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue.

Assimilate

(transitive) To incorporate or absorb (knowledge) into the mind.
The teacher paused in her lecture to allow the students to assimilate what she had said.

Assimilate

(transitive) To absorb (a person or people) into a community or culture.
The aliens in the science-fiction film wanted to assimilate human beings into their own race.

Assimilate

To liken, compare to something similar.

Assimilate

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

Assimilate

(intransitive) To become similar.

Assimilate

(intransitive) To be incorporated or absorbed into something.

Assimilate

Something that is or has been assimilated.

Assimilate

To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.
To assimilate our law to the law of Scotland.
Fast falls a fleecy; the downy flakesAssimilate all objects.

Assimilate

To liken; to compa e.

Assimilate

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.
Hence also animals and vegetables may assimilate their nourishment.
His mind had no power to assimilate the lessons.

Assimilate

To become similar or like something else.

Assimilate

To change and appropriate nourishment so as to make it a part of the substance of the assimilating body.
Aliment easily assimilated or turned into blood.

Assimilate

To be converted into the substance of the assimilating body; to become incorporated; as, some kinds of food assimilate more readily than others.
I am a foreign material, and cannot assimilate with the church of England.

Assimilate

Take up mentally;
He absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe

Assimilate

Become similar to one's environment;
Immigrants often want to assimilate quickly

Assimilate

Make similar;
This country assimilates immigrants very quickly

Assimilate

Take (gas, light or heat) into a solution

Assimilate

Become similar in sound;
The nasal assimialates to the following consonant

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