Definition of assimilate in English:

assimilate

verb əˈsɪmɪleɪtəˈsɪməˌleɪt

[with object]

1Take in and understand fully (information or ideas)
Marie tried to assimilate the week's events
Example sentencesExamples
- Time, effort, and resources must be devoted in order to locate, gather, and assimilate information.
- But people's ability to assimilate information varies.
- The Mexican girl leans back, assimilating this new information.
- The committee, which is still working on firming their plans, is now assimilating the information on the alumni and how they plan to contribute to the university.
- Study questions that will allow the student to assess how well they are assimilating the information are included at the end of each chapter.
- A motion to adjourn and reconvene in six days so that directors could assimilate the new information was defeated by three votes.
- Angel needed a few seconds to assimilate the information.
- Children find it easier to assimilate new information when it is presented within the structure of a story.
- She and her friends strive to assimilate the vague information provided by their well-meaning but sinister guardians.
- Becoming a judge is a process - one that requires a lot of effort to assimilate the requisite information.
- The experts are better able to assimilate information, based on their expectations from the mental model.
- It was designed to help general practitioners appraise and assimilate information from scientific publications.
- The mother of four said using games and learning exercises to improve children's self esteem helped them assimilate information quicker, improve concentration and enhance natural talent.
- A lot of data from long-term studies need to be analyzed and assimilated to help in the decision-making process.
- Collecting, analyzing, and assimilating information at this level of detail is a formidable challenge for intelligence analysts, policymakers, and warfighters alike.
- Therefore, after an introduction during staff orientation and some hands-on experience in the first week or two, staff members will have a better context and foundation for assimilating the information.
- My daughter is so rarely ill that she has had to augment her vocabulary at a time when her brain least feels like assimilating information.
- An audience that senses it is being indoctrinated is more likely to resist assimilating the information.
- For example, students are regularly using the Internet to gather and assimilate information for use in research assignments.
- The argument that even fifth-grade students, for example, are not ‘ready’ to assimilate psychological information needs to be revisited.
- Student nurses will benefit from the book's logical flow, which allows readers to assimilate information presented by the content and exhibits in each chapter.
Synonyms
understand, comprehend, work out, fathom out, make sense of, grasp, catch, follow, perceive, make out, penetrate, divine, search out, ferret out, puzzle out, take in, absorb, get to the bottom of
1. 1.1 Absorb and integrate (people, ideas, or culture) into a wider society or culture.
  pop trends are assimilated into the mainstream with alarming speed
  Example sentencesExamples
  Even the worst decisions are eventually assimilated into the culture of commerce.
  Chausson spent much of his short life - he died in a bicycle accident when he was 44 - assimilating Wagner's music while trying not to imitate it.
  It assimilates different musical elements from different musical genres including electronic, rock, global beat, neo-classic and industrial noise in a blend of its own.
  If the domestication is complete, the humanity of the native is obliterated, at least, until he assimilates the dominant culture.
  They missed out on education before they even came here and it's extremely difficult for them to be assimilated into mainstream society.
  Hence, friends, I do believe that we can make our society even better by assimilating these Western values into our own culture - we will be stronger for it.
  The Bakongo are a blend of peoples who assimilated the Kongo culture and language over time.
  They have been assimilated into our culture, making their culture ours.
  As these pagan cultures were forcibly assimilated by Christian society, some of their original beliefs were blended with the new religion.
  It is such a unique, comprehensive martial art, which assimilates other martial art forms into it.
  The idea of fine art and artists in an ethnographic museum possesses its own set of difficulties, but Faber succeeds in assimilating visual art into the context in a way that has proved relevant, interesting and educational.
  What does the culture assimilate, and what is it forced to reject?
  And it was spreading and taking over and trying to assimilate cultures and suppress belief systems.
  Throughout the period of conquest and migration Turkic peoples appropriated and assimilated the new cultures they encountered.
  What's left for the apocalyptic imagination to do in a culture that has thoroughly assimilated the concept?
  The danger exists that universities will be so assimilated into society that we will no longer be the kind of collectors of talent that allow creativity to blossom.
  The later Babylonians, Arameans and Assyrians all assimilated the culture initially prepared by the Sumerians.
  We also want to be assimilated into the mainstream and do not want to be patronised.
  Fairweather painted mainly in earth colours used by the artists of South-East Asia and the Pacific and he was one of the first artists to assimilate aboriginal art into his own work.
  Common language and considerable wealth has greatly assisted the US in assimilating much artistry from overseas, but is disadvantaged to Japan in as much as it has never had to accept another culture for its own survival.
  Synonyms
  subsume, incorporate, integrate, absorb, engulf, swallow up, take over, co-opt, naturalize, adopt, embrace, accept, admit
  rare acculturate
2. 1.2no object Become absorbed and integrated into a society or culture.
  the older generation had more trouble assimilating
3. 1.3 (of the body or any biological system) absorb and digest (food or nutrients)
  the sugars in the fruit are readily assimilated by the body
  Example sentencesExamples
  Your pet may also have a systemic inability to assimilate certain nutrients.
  Most animals make heavy use of the muscular system and the digestive system to move about and to assimilate food.
  It is natural for all substances other than air to be assimilated into the body through digestive organs, but injecting a certain substance directly into blood vessels is unnatural.
  At the same time, there is a stimulation to the growth of health-friendly, aerobic bacteria which help you digest and assimilate the needed nutrients.
  This may be because the body becomes less efficient at assimilating the metal or the amount in the diet decreases.
  In fact, they say, nobody knows what the correct quantity of these medicines for children is or how their systems assimilate the drugs.
  To be safely assimilated, nutrients must be entirely compatible with the body and appropriate to evolved requirements.
  Also, some products contain inferior proteins that aren't easily assimilated by the body.
  Without receiving proper directions, the cells cannot assimilate the glucose, which then remains in the bloodstream.
  But we never [before] had to assimilate a heavy dose of high-glycemic carbohydrates.
  As a result, digestion is compromised with the poorly assimilated food contributing to the organ congestion.
  If we find that people cannot assimilate foods created in this new way without harm to their health, we can always just engineer a better human being.
  Other supplements that are critical include magnesium and vitamin D, since they help you assimilate the calcium.
  He could not assimilate the nutrients in food even if he had an appetite.
  For instance, many people who can't digest cow-milk-based products can happily assimilate stuff crafted from goat's milk (which is lower in lactose).
  For your body to use everything you eat, you have to help it digest and assimilate the sustaining values in foods and efficiently eliminate the rest.
  Some of the nutrients are assimilated by vegetation and converted to foliage.
  As one can see, it is the perfect medium for a variety of health-giving, easily digested and assimilated food and herb combinations.
  It also encourages capillary growth in your muscle tissue and increases the density of fuel-metabolizing mitochondria in your cells, both of which help you burn fat and assimilate nutrients.
  Protein is the key to building muscle mass, but your body can assimilate only 30-40 grams of it in one feeding.
  Synonyms
  absorb, take in, acquire, pick up, grasp, comprehend, understand, learn, master
  digest, ingest, imbibe, drink in, soak in
  informal get the hang of, get
2Regard as similar; liken.
philosophers had assimilated thought to perception
1. 2.1no object Become similar.
  the Churches assimilated to a certain cultural norm
  Example sentencesExamples
  During that period, Catholic schools have steadily become assimilated to the non-denominational schools in terms of curriculum, teaching methods, assessment and examinations.
  I think the church had to assimilate with the society: it didn't come accompanied by Roman invasion as you know, so therefore it had to fit in with society rather than attempt to change society initially.
  This is a man who believes that above all the church must resist the temptation to assimilate to modern secular culture.
  Left-wing, democratic, and moderate liberal opinion tended to become assimilated to the more extreme views of the right.
  The population of the empire included Siamese and probably other Austroasiatic peoples who gradually assimilated to the Khmer.
  Overwhelmingly, however, the global has been assimilated to the popular.
  Those targets will be partly quantitative (and thus more closely assimilated to indicators) and partly qualitative.
2. 2.2Phonetics Make (a sound) more like another in the same or next word.
  the ‘v’ in ‘fivepence’ may be assimilated to a voiceless ‘f’ (because of the ‘p’)
  Example sentencesExamples
  In most circumstances, long u is music-u, the initial i glide being assimilated to produce truth-u only after certain consonants.

Derivatives

assimilable

adjective əˈsɪmɪləb(ə)ləˈsɪmələb(ə)l

For close to five years I believed all truths were relative and assimilable, and that meaning and purpose were nonexistent outside the brain of the observer.
Example sentencesExamples
- Medieval writers, especially lawyers, often assumed, or tried to assume, that all those falling below a certain level were more or less assimilable into the common designation of serfs.
- This is a non-linguistic interpretation to be sure, and one that is not easily assimilable to a political project such as the one Michaels proposes.
- Sport and religious imagery are equally assimilable.
- This led to a labor theory of intellectual production that was assimilable to the Marxist notion of the labor theory of value.

assimilative

adjective əˌsɪmɪˈleɪtɪv

The cumulative effects of concentrated human activities can create large-scale or long-term environmental consequences beyond the assimilative capacity of the environment.
Example sentencesExamples
- The second major approach to psychotherapy integration is assimilative integration.
- Local governments have the ability to ensure that their built and natural systems do not exceed their respective assimilative capacities.
- The assimilative forces that absorbed those immigrants and their languages are in fact even more powerful today.
- Furthermore, the connection between assimilative campaigns and nation-building, though frequently asserted, is not convincingly demonstrated.

assimilator

nounəˈsɪmɪleɪtəəˈsɪməˌleɪdər

A person who assimilates or engages in assimilation.
even for dedicated assimilators like my parents, a Christmas tree would have been a bridge too far
Example sentencesExamples
- he was a successful assimilator and developer of European influences
- Their contributions to nationalism were hidden in two ways: first, because nationalism contains many patriarchal assumptions, and second, because feminists often focus on women as victims, not assimilators.
- By using the word ‘freedom’ in this statement about his search for a poetic language, he gestures toward the concept of liberation that lies at the center of narratives that portray him as a model assimilator.
- In other words, so-called assimilators are not aping heterosexual norms but instead embracing the middle class lifestyle?

assimilatory

adjective əˈsɪmɪlət(ə)ri

By contrast, ammonium or its metabolic products exert inhibitory effects on the nitrate assimilatory pathway.
Example sentencesExamples
- These assimilatory views are part of a perception of a quite dominant culture, much more than exists in Canada for example.
- An immediate first line of defense to nutrient deficiency is the activation of assimilatory mechanisms, and this is well established for copper as well.
- It is thus not surprising that regulatory interactions between assimilatory sulphate and nitrate assimilation in plants were long established.
- The Israeli ministry of education applies assimilatory ideologies, and assumes that Hebrew should be the language of instruction, not Russian.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin assimilat- 'absorbed, incorporated', from the verb assimilare, from ad- 'to' + similis 'like'.

Rhymes

dissimilate

Definition of assimilate in US English:

assimilate

verbəˈsiməˌlātəˈsɪməˌleɪt

[with object]

1Take in (information, ideas, or culture) and understand fully.
Marie tried to assimilate the week's events
Example sentencesExamples
- Becoming a judge is a process - one that requires a lot of effort to assimilate the requisite information.
- The mother of four said using games and learning exercises to improve children's self esteem helped them assimilate information quicker, improve concentration and enhance natural talent.
- The experts are better able to assimilate information, based on their expectations from the mental model.
- Collecting, analyzing, and assimilating information at this level of detail is a formidable challenge for intelligence analysts, policymakers, and warfighters alike.
- Therefore, after an introduction during staff orientation and some hands-on experience in the first week or two, staff members will have a better context and foundation for assimilating the information.
- She and her friends strive to assimilate the vague information provided by their well-meaning but sinister guardians.
- It was designed to help general practitioners appraise and assimilate information from scientific publications.
- Angel needed a few seconds to assimilate the information.
- A motion to adjourn and reconvene in six days so that directors could assimilate the new information was defeated by three votes.
- An audience that senses it is being indoctrinated is more likely to resist assimilating the information.
- The committee, which is still working on firming their plans, is now assimilating the information on the alumni and how they plan to contribute to the university.
- Study questions that will allow the student to assess how well they are assimilating the information are included at the end of each chapter.
- My daughter is so rarely ill that she has had to augment her vocabulary at a time when her brain least feels like assimilating information.
- Time, effort, and resources must be devoted in order to locate, gather, and assimilate information.
- Student nurses will benefit from the book's logical flow, which allows readers to assimilate information presented by the content and exhibits in each chapter.
- A lot of data from long-term studies need to be analyzed and assimilated to help in the decision-making process.
- The argument that even fifth-grade students, for example, are not ‘ready’ to assimilate psychological information needs to be revisited.
- The Mexican girl leans back, assimilating this new information.
- For example, students are regularly using the Internet to gather and assimilate information for use in research assignments.
- Children find it easier to assimilate new information when it is presented within the structure of a story.
- But people's ability to assimilate information varies.
Synonyms
understand, comprehend, work out, fathom out, make sense of, grasp, catch, follow, perceive, make out, penetrate, divine, search out, ferret out, puzzle out, take in, absorb, get to the bottom of
1. 1.1 Absorb and integrate (people, ideas, or culture) into a wider society or culture.
  pop trends are assimilated into the mainstream with alarming speed
  Example sentencesExamples
  What does the culture assimilate, and what is it forced to reject?
  It assimilates different musical elements from different musical genres including electronic, rock, global beat, neo-classic and industrial noise in a blend of its own.
  Common language and considerable wealth has greatly assisted the US in assimilating much artistry from overseas, but is disadvantaged to Japan in as much as it has never had to accept another culture for its own survival.
  What's left for the apocalyptic imagination to do in a culture that has thoroughly assimilated the concept?
  We also want to be assimilated into the mainstream and do not want to be patronised.
  They have been assimilated into our culture, making their culture ours.
  The danger exists that universities will be so assimilated into society that we will no longer be the kind of collectors of talent that allow creativity to blossom.
  And it was spreading and taking over and trying to assimilate cultures and suppress belief systems.
  The idea of fine art and artists in an ethnographic museum possesses its own set of difficulties, but Faber succeeds in assimilating visual art into the context in a way that has proved relevant, interesting and educational.
  It is such a unique, comprehensive martial art, which assimilates other martial art forms into it.
  Even the worst decisions are eventually assimilated into the culture of commerce.
  If the domestication is complete, the humanity of the native is obliterated, at least, until he assimilates the dominant culture.
  They missed out on education before they even came here and it's extremely difficult for them to be assimilated into mainstream society.
  The Bakongo are a blend of peoples who assimilated the Kongo culture and language over time.
  Hence, friends, I do believe that we can make our society even better by assimilating these Western values into our own culture - we will be stronger for it.
  Chausson spent much of his short life - he died in a bicycle accident when he was 44 - assimilating Wagner's music while trying not to imitate it.
  The later Babylonians, Arameans and Assyrians all assimilated the culture initially prepared by the Sumerians.
  Fairweather painted mainly in earth colours used by the artists of South-East Asia and the Pacific and he was one of the first artists to assimilate aboriginal art into his own work.
  Throughout the period of conquest and migration Turkic peoples appropriated and assimilated the new cultures they encountered.
  As these pagan cultures were forcibly assimilated by Christian society, some of their original beliefs were blended with the new religion.
  Synonyms
  subsume, incorporate, integrate, absorb, engulf, swallow up, take over, co-opt, naturalize, adopt, embrace, accept, admit
2. 1.2no object Become absorbed and integrated into a society or culture.
  the older generation had more trouble assimilating
3. 1.3 (of the body or any biological system) absorb and digest (food or nutrients)
  the sugars in the fruit are readily assimilated by the body
  Example sentencesExamples
  To be safely assimilated, nutrients must be entirely compatible with the body and appropriate to evolved requirements.
  Without receiving proper directions, the cells cannot assimilate the glucose, which then remains in the bloodstream.
  If we find that people cannot assimilate foods created in this new way without harm to their health, we can always just engineer a better human being.
  Other supplements that are critical include magnesium and vitamin D, since they help you assimilate the calcium.
  As a result, digestion is compromised with the poorly assimilated food contributing to the organ congestion.
  At the same time, there is a stimulation to the growth of health-friendly, aerobic bacteria which help you digest and assimilate the needed nutrients.
  Also, some products contain inferior proteins that aren't easily assimilated by the body.
  It also encourages capillary growth in your muscle tissue and increases the density of fuel-metabolizing mitochondria in your cells, both of which help you burn fat and assimilate nutrients.
  He could not assimilate the nutrients in food even if he had an appetite.
  It is natural for all substances other than air to be assimilated into the body through digestive organs, but injecting a certain substance directly into blood vessels is unnatural.
  Protein is the key to building muscle mass, but your body can assimilate only 30-40 grams of it in one feeding.
  Your pet may also have a systemic inability to assimilate certain nutrients.
  As one can see, it is the perfect medium for a variety of health-giving, easily digested and assimilated food and herb combinations.
  For your body to use everything you eat, you have to help it digest and assimilate the sustaining values in foods and efficiently eliminate the rest.
  Most animals make heavy use of the muscular system and the digestive system to move about and to assimilate food.
  This may be because the body becomes less efficient at assimilating the metal or the amount in the diet decreases.
  In fact, they say, nobody knows what the correct quantity of these medicines for children is or how their systems assimilate the drugs.
  But we never [before] had to assimilate a heavy dose of high-glycemic carbohydrates.
  Some of the nutrients are assimilated by vegetation and converted to foliage.
  For instance, many people who can't digest cow-milk-based products can happily assimilate stuff crafted from goat's milk (which is lower in lactose).
  Synonyms
  absorb, take in, acquire, pick up, grasp, comprehend, understand, learn, master
2Cause (something) to resemble; liken.
philosophers had assimilated thought to perception
1. 2.1no object Come to resemble.
  the Churches assimilated to a certain cultural norm
  Example sentencesExamples
  Overwhelmingly, however, the global has been assimilated to the popular.
  Those targets will be partly quantitative (and thus more closely assimilated to indicators) and partly qualitative.
  During that period, Catholic schools have steadily become assimilated to the non-denominational schools in terms of curriculum, teaching methods, assessment and examinations.
  This is a man who believes that above all the church must resist the temptation to assimilate to modern secular culture.
  Left-wing, democratic, and moderate liberal opinion tended to become assimilated to the more extreme views of the right.
  I think the church had to assimilate with the society: it didn't come accompanied by Roman invasion as you know, so therefore it had to fit in with society rather than attempt to change society initially.
  The population of the empire included Siamese and probably other Austroasiatic peoples who gradually assimilated to the Khmer.
2. 2.2Phonetics Make (a sound) more like another in the same or next word.
  Example sentencesExamples
  In most circumstances, long u is music-u, the initial i glide being assimilated to produce truth-u only after certain consonants.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin assimilat- ‘absorbed, incorporated’, from the verb assimilare, from ad- ‘to’ + similis ‘like’.

单词	assimilate
释义	Definition of assimilate in English: assimilate verb əˈsɪmɪleɪtəˈsɪməˌleɪt [with object] 1Take in and understand fully (information or ideas) Marie tried to assimilate the week's events Example sentencesExamples Time, effort, and resources must be devoted in order to locate, gather, and assimilate information. But people's ability to assimilate information varies. The Mexican girl leans back, assimilating this new information. The committee, which is still working on firming their plans, is now assimilating the information on the alumni and how they plan to contribute to the university. Study questions that will allow the student to assess how well they are assimilating the information are included at the end of each chapter. A motion to adjourn and reconvene in six days so that directors could assimilate the new information was defeated by three votes. Angel needed a few seconds to assimilate the information. Children find it easier to assimilate new information when it is presented within the structure of a story. She and her friends strive to assimilate the vague information provided by their well-meaning but sinister guardians. Becoming a judge is a process - one that requires a lot of effort to assimilate the requisite information. The experts are better able to assimilate information, based on their expectations from the mental model. It was designed to help general practitioners appraise and assimilate information from scientific publications. The mother of four said using games and learning exercises to improve children's self esteem helped them assimilate information quicker, improve concentration and enhance natural talent. A lot of data from long-term studies need to be analyzed and assimilated to help in the decision-making process. Collecting, analyzing, and assimilating information at this level of detail is a formidable challenge for intelligence analysts, policymakers, and warfighters alike. Therefore, after an introduction during staff orientation and some hands-on experience in the first week or two, staff members will have a better context and foundation for assimilating the information. My daughter is so rarely ill that she has had to augment her vocabulary at a time when her brain least feels like assimilating information. An audience that senses it is being indoctrinated is more likely to resist assimilating the information. For example, students are regularly using the Internet to gather and assimilate information for use in research assignments. The argument that even fifth-grade students, for example, are not ‘ready’ to assimilate psychological information needs to be revisited. Student nurses will benefit from the book's logical flow, which allows readers to assimilate information presented by the content and exhibits in each chapter. Synonyms understand, comprehend, work out, fathom out, make sense of, grasp, catch, follow, perceive, make out, penetrate, divine, search out, ferret out, puzzle out, take in, absorb, get to the bottom of 1.1 Absorb and integrate (people, ideas, or culture) into a wider society or culture. pop trends are assimilated into the mainstream with alarming speed Example sentencesExamples Even the worst decisions are eventually assimilated into the culture of commerce. Chausson spent much of his short life - he died in a bicycle accident when he was 44 - assimilating Wagner's music while trying not to imitate it. It assimilates different musical elements from different musical genres including electronic, rock, global beat, neo-classic and industrial noise in a blend of its own. If the domestication is complete, the humanity of the native is obliterated, at least, until he assimilates the dominant culture. They missed out on education before they even came here and it's extremely difficult for them to be assimilated into mainstream society. Hence, friends, I do believe that we can make our society even better by assimilating these Western values into our own culture - we will be stronger for it. The Bakongo are a blend of peoples who assimilated the Kongo culture and language over time. They have been assimilated into our culture, making their culture ours. As these pagan cultures were forcibly assimilated by Christian society, some of their original beliefs were blended with the new religion. It is such a unique, comprehensive martial art, which assimilates other martial art forms into it. The idea of fine art and artists in an ethnographic museum possesses its own set of difficulties, but Faber succeeds in assimilating visual art into the context in a way that has proved relevant, interesting and educational. What does the culture assimilate, and what is it forced to reject? And it was spreading and taking over and trying to assimilate cultures and suppress belief systems. Throughout the period of conquest and migration Turkic peoples appropriated and assimilated the new cultures they encountered. What's left for the apocalyptic imagination to do in a culture that has thoroughly assimilated the concept? The danger exists that universities will be so assimilated into society that we will no longer be the kind of collectors of talent that allow creativity to blossom. The later Babylonians, Arameans and Assyrians all assimilated the culture initially prepared by the Sumerians. We also want to be assimilated into the mainstream and do not want to be patronised. Fairweather painted mainly in earth colours used by the artists of South-East Asia and the Pacific and he was one of the first artists to assimilate aboriginal art into his own work. Common language and considerable wealth has greatly assisted the US in assimilating much artistry from overseas, but is disadvantaged to Japan in as much as it has never had to accept another culture for its own survival. Synonyms subsume, incorporate, integrate, absorb, engulf, swallow up, take over, co-opt, naturalize, adopt, embrace, accept, admit rare acculturate 1.2no object Become absorbed and integrated into a society or culture. the older generation had more trouble assimilating 1.3 (of the body or any biological system) absorb and digest (food or nutrients) the sugars in the fruit are readily assimilated by the body Example sentencesExamples Your pet may also have a systemic inability to assimilate certain nutrients. Most animals make heavy use of the muscular system and the digestive system to move about and to assimilate food. It is natural for all substances other than air to be assimilated into the body through digestive organs, but injecting a certain substance directly into blood vessels is unnatural. At the same time, there is a stimulation to the growth of health-friendly, aerobic bacteria which help you digest and assimilate the needed nutrients. This may be because the body becomes less efficient at assimilating the metal or the amount in the diet decreases. In fact, they say, nobody knows what the correct quantity of these medicines for children is or how their systems assimilate the drugs. To be safely assimilated, nutrients must be entirely compatible with the body and appropriate to evolved requirements. Also, some products contain inferior proteins that aren't easily assimilated by the body. Without receiving proper directions, the cells cannot assimilate the glucose, which then remains in the bloodstream. But we never [before] had to assimilate a heavy dose of high-glycemic carbohydrates. As a result, digestion is compromised with the poorly assimilated food contributing to the organ congestion. If we find that people cannot assimilate foods created in this new way without harm to their health, we can always just engineer a better human being. Other supplements that are critical include magnesium and vitamin D, since they help you assimilate the calcium. He could not assimilate the nutrients in food even if he had an appetite. For instance, many people who can't digest cow-milk-based products can happily assimilate stuff crafted from goat's milk (which is lower in lactose). For your body to use everything you eat, you have to help it digest and assimilate the sustaining values in foods and efficiently eliminate the rest. Some of the nutrients are assimilated by vegetation and converted to foliage. As one can see, it is the perfect medium for a variety of health-giving, easily digested and assimilated food and herb combinations. It also encourages capillary growth in your muscle tissue and increases the density of fuel-metabolizing mitochondria in your cells, both of which help you burn fat and assimilate nutrients. Protein is the key to building muscle mass, but your body can assimilate only 30-40 grams of it in one feeding. Synonyms absorb, take in, acquire, pick up, grasp, comprehend, understand, learn, master digest, ingest, imbibe, drink in, soak in informal get the hang of, get 2Regard as similar; liken. philosophers had assimilated thought to perception 2.1no object Become similar. the Churches assimilated to a certain cultural norm Example sentencesExamples During that period, Catholic schools have steadily become assimilated to the non-denominational schools in terms of curriculum, teaching methods, assessment and examinations. I think the church had to assimilate with the society: it didn't come accompanied by Roman invasion as you know, so therefore it had to fit in with society rather than attempt to change society initially. This is a man who believes that above all the church must resist the temptation to assimilate to modern secular culture. Left-wing, democratic, and moderate liberal opinion tended to become assimilated to the more extreme views of the right. The population of the empire included Siamese and probably other Austroasiatic peoples who gradually assimilated to the Khmer. Overwhelmingly, however, the global has been assimilated to the popular. Those targets will be partly quantitative (and thus more closely assimilated to indicators) and partly qualitative. 2.2Phonetics Make (a sound) more like another in the same or next word. the ‘v’ in ‘fivepence’ may be assimilated to a voiceless ‘f’ (because of the ‘p’) Example sentencesExamples In most circumstances, long u is music-u, the initial i glide being assimilated to produce truth-u only after certain consonants. Derivatives assimilable adjective əˈsɪmɪləb(ə)ləˈsɪmələb(ə)l For close to five years I believed all truths were relative and assimilable, and that meaning and purpose were nonexistent outside the brain of the observer. Example sentencesExamples Medieval writers, especially lawyers, often assumed, or tried to assume, that all those falling below a certain level were more or less assimilable into the common designation of serfs. This is a non-linguistic interpretation to be sure, and one that is not easily assimilable to a political project such as the one Michaels proposes. Sport and religious imagery are equally assimilable. This led to a labor theory of intellectual production that was assimilable to the Marxist notion of the labor theory of value. assimilative adjective əˌsɪmɪˈleɪtɪv The cumulative effects of concentrated human activities can create large-scale or long-term environmental consequences beyond the assimilative capacity of the environment. Example sentencesExamples The second major approach to psychotherapy integration is assimilative integration. Local governments have the ability to ensure that their built and natural systems do not exceed their respective assimilative capacities. The assimilative forces that absorbed those immigrants and their languages are in fact even more powerful today. Furthermore, the connection between assimilative campaigns and nation-building, though frequently asserted, is not convincingly demonstrated. assimilator nounəˈsɪmɪleɪtəəˈsɪməˌleɪdər A person who assimilates or engages in assimilation. even for dedicated assimilators like my parents, a Christmas tree would have been a bridge too far Example sentencesExamples he was a successful assimilator and developer of European influences Their contributions to nationalism were hidden in two ways: first, because nationalism contains many patriarchal assumptions, and second, because feminists often focus on women as victims, not assimilators. By using the word ‘freedom’ in this statement about his search for a poetic language, he gestures toward the concept of liberation that lies at the center of narratives that portray him as a model assimilator. In other words, so-called assimilators are not aping heterosexual norms but instead embracing the middle class lifestyle? assimilatory adjective əˈsɪmɪlət(ə)ri By contrast, ammonium or its metabolic products exert inhibitory effects on the nitrate assimilatory pathway. Example sentencesExamples These assimilatory views are part of a perception of a quite dominant culture, much more than exists in Canada for example. An immediate first line of defense to nutrient deficiency is the activation of assimilatory mechanisms, and this is well established for copper as well. It is thus not surprising that regulatory interactions between assimilatory sulphate and nitrate assimilation in plants were long established. The Israeli ministry of education applies assimilatory ideologies, and assumes that Hebrew should be the language of instruction, not Russian. Origin Late Middle English: from Latin assimilat- 'absorbed, incorporated', from the verb assimilare, from ad- 'to' + similis 'like'. Rhymes dissimilate Definition of assimilate in US English: assimilate verbəˈsiməˌlātəˈsɪməˌleɪt [with object] 1Take in (information, ideas, or culture) and understand fully. Marie tried to assimilate the week's events Example sentencesExamples Becoming a judge is a process - one that requires a lot of effort to assimilate the requisite information. The mother of four said using games and learning exercises to improve children's self esteem helped them assimilate information quicker, improve concentration and enhance natural talent. The experts are better able to assimilate information, based on their expectations from the mental model. Collecting, analyzing, and assimilating information at this level of detail is a formidable challenge for intelligence analysts, policymakers, and warfighters alike. Therefore, after an introduction during staff orientation and some hands-on experience in the first week or two, staff members will have a better context and foundation for assimilating the information. She and her friends strive to assimilate the vague information provided by their well-meaning but sinister guardians. It was designed to help general practitioners appraise and assimilate information from scientific publications. Angel needed a few seconds to assimilate the information. A motion to adjourn and reconvene in six days so that directors could assimilate the new information was defeated by three votes. An audience that senses it is being indoctrinated is more likely to resist assimilating the information. The committee, which is still working on firming their plans, is now assimilating the information on the alumni and how they plan to contribute to the university. Study questions that will allow the student to assess how well they are assimilating the information are included at the end of each chapter. My daughter is so rarely ill that she has had to augment her vocabulary at a time when her brain least feels like assimilating information. Time, effort, and resources must be devoted in order to locate, gather, and assimilate information. Student nurses will benefit from the book's logical flow, which allows readers to assimilate information presented by the content and exhibits in each chapter. A lot of data from long-term studies need to be analyzed and assimilated to help in the decision-making process. The argument that even fifth-grade students, for example, are not ‘ready’ to assimilate psychological information needs to be revisited. The Mexican girl leans back, assimilating this new information. For example, students are regularly using the Internet to gather and assimilate information for use in research assignments. Children find it easier to assimilate new information when it is presented within the structure of a story. But people's ability to assimilate information varies. Synonyms understand, comprehend, work out, fathom out, make sense of, grasp, catch, follow, perceive, make out, penetrate, divine, search out, ferret out, puzzle out, take in, absorb, get to the bottom of 1.1 Absorb and integrate (people, ideas, or culture) into a wider society or culture. pop trends are assimilated into the mainstream with alarming speed Example sentencesExamples What does the culture assimilate, and what is it forced to reject? It assimilates different musical elements from different musical genres including electronic, rock, global beat, neo-classic and industrial noise in a blend of its own. Common language and considerable wealth has greatly assisted the US in assimilating much artistry from overseas, but is disadvantaged to Japan in as much as it has never had to accept another culture for its own survival. What's left for the apocalyptic imagination to do in a culture that has thoroughly assimilated the concept? We also want to be assimilated into the mainstream and do not want to be patronised. They have been assimilated into our culture, making their culture ours. The danger exists that universities will be so assimilated into society that we will no longer be the kind of collectors of talent that allow creativity to blossom. And it was spreading and taking over and trying to assimilate cultures and suppress belief systems. The idea of fine art and artists in an ethnographic museum possesses its own set of difficulties, but Faber succeeds in assimilating visual art into the context in a way that has proved relevant, interesting and educational. It is such a unique, comprehensive martial art, which assimilates other martial art forms into it. Even the worst decisions are eventually assimilated into the culture of commerce. If the domestication is complete, the humanity of the native is obliterated, at least, until he assimilates the dominant culture. They missed out on education before they even came here and it's extremely difficult for them to be assimilated into mainstream society. The Bakongo are a blend of peoples who assimilated the Kongo culture and language over time. Hence, friends, I do believe that we can make our society even better by assimilating these Western values into our own culture - we will be stronger for it. Chausson spent much of his short life - he died in a bicycle accident when he was 44 - assimilating Wagner's music while trying not to imitate it. The later Babylonians, Arameans and Assyrians all assimilated the culture initially prepared by the Sumerians. Fairweather painted mainly in earth colours used by the artists of South-East Asia and the Pacific and he was one of the first artists to assimilate aboriginal art into his own work. Throughout the period of conquest and migration Turkic peoples appropriated and assimilated the new cultures they encountered. As these pagan cultures were forcibly assimilated by Christian society, some of their original beliefs were blended with the new religion. Synonyms subsume, incorporate, integrate, absorb, engulf, swallow up, take over, co-opt, naturalize, adopt, embrace, accept, admit 1.2no object Become absorbed and integrated into a society or culture. the older generation had more trouble assimilating 1.3 (of the body or any biological system) absorb and digest (food or nutrients) the sugars in the fruit are readily assimilated by the body Example sentencesExamples To be safely assimilated, nutrients must be entirely compatible with the body and appropriate to evolved requirements. Without receiving proper directions, the cells cannot assimilate the glucose, which then remains in the bloodstream. If we find that people cannot assimilate foods created in this new way without harm to their health, we can always just engineer a better human being. Other supplements that are critical include magnesium and vitamin D, since they help you assimilate the calcium. As a result, digestion is compromised with the poorly assimilated food contributing to the organ congestion. At the same time, there is a stimulation to the growth of health-friendly, aerobic bacteria which help you digest and assimilate the needed nutrients. Also, some products contain inferior proteins that aren't easily assimilated by the body. It also encourages capillary growth in your muscle tissue and increases the density of fuel-metabolizing mitochondria in your cells, both of which help you burn fat and assimilate nutrients. He could not assimilate the nutrients in food even if he had an appetite. It is natural for all substances other than air to be assimilated into the body through digestive organs, but injecting a certain substance directly into blood vessels is unnatural. Protein is the key to building muscle mass, but your body can assimilate only 30-40 grams of it in one feeding. Your pet may also have a systemic inability to assimilate certain nutrients. As one can see, it is the perfect medium for a variety of health-giving, easily digested and assimilated food and herb combinations. For your body to use everything you eat, you have to help it digest and assimilate the sustaining values in foods and efficiently eliminate the rest. Most animals make heavy use of the muscular system and the digestive system to move about and to assimilate food. This may be because the body becomes less efficient at assimilating the metal or the amount in the diet decreases. In fact, they say, nobody knows what the correct quantity of these medicines for children is or how their systems assimilate the drugs. But we never [before] had to assimilate a heavy dose of high-glycemic carbohydrates. Some of the nutrients are assimilated by vegetation and converted to foliage. For instance, many people who can't digest cow-milk-based products can happily assimilate stuff crafted from goat's milk (which is lower in lactose). Synonyms absorb, take in, acquire, pick up, grasp, comprehend, understand, learn, master 2Cause (something) to resemble; liken. philosophers had assimilated thought to perception 2.1no object Come to resemble. the Churches assimilated to a certain cultural norm Example sentencesExamples Overwhelmingly, however, the global has been assimilated to the popular. Those targets will be partly quantitative (and thus more closely assimilated to indicators) and partly qualitative. During that period, Catholic schools have steadily become assimilated to the non-denominational schools in terms of curriculum, teaching methods, assessment and examinations. This is a man who believes that above all the church must resist the temptation to assimilate to modern secular culture. Left-wing, democratic, and moderate liberal opinion tended to become assimilated to the more extreme views of the right. I think the church had to assimilate with the society: it didn't come accompanied by Roman invasion as you know, so therefore it had to fit in with society rather than attempt to change society initially. The population of the empire included Siamese and probably other Austroasiatic peoples who gradually assimilated to the Khmer. 2.2Phonetics Make (a sound) more like another in the same or next word. Example sentencesExamples In most circumstances, long u is music-u, the initial i glide being assimilated to produce truth-u only after certain consonants. Origin Late Middle English: from Latin assimilat- ‘absorbed, incorporated’, from the verb assimilare, from ad- ‘to’ + similis ‘like’.
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