Sekirov Dictionary

assimilate

/əˈsɪm.ɪ.leɪt/

verb 8
adjective 2
noun 2
forms 6

verb8

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To incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion.
- Food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue.
•
To incorporate or absorb (knowledge) into the mind.
- The teacher paused in her lecture to allow the students to assimilate what she had said.
•
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.
To be incorporated or absorbed into something.
•
To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.
- Fast falls a fleecy shower; the downy flakes / Assimilate all objects. — 1782
To become similar.
•
To undergo phonetic assimilation.
- In Arabic, if a noun starts with a sun letter, it assimilates the lam sound of the of article al-, but if it starts with a moon letter, there is no change to the al-. — 2023
•
(rare) To liken, compare to something similar.
- The use of an animal to kill, wound or threaten is assimilated to the use of a weapon. — 2005

adjective2

(no longer used) Similar, like, the same as.
(no longer used) Assimilated.

noun2

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Something that is or has been assimilated.
- At low light intensity, high temperature delays the first flower initiation, as assimilate supply is limiting and high temperature reduces the amount of assimilate available in the plant[.] — 2005
(no longer used) Something that is like, similar to another.

forms

assimilated · assimilating · assimilates · assimilateth · more assimilate · most assimilate

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