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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
assimilate
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
child
▪ The child would then assimilate this object into its already formed concept of table, with no further consequence.
▪ The development of cognitive structures is ensured only if the child assimilates and accommodates stimuli in the environment.
▪ As a child assimilates and accommodates, all of his or her schemata are elaborated.
information
▪ You must continually assimilate new information into the context of your earlier knowledge.
▪ Each day when he had assimilated all the information, he sent it on to Trepassey.
■ VERB
try
▪ Once accommodation has taken place, a child can try again to assimilate the stimulus.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Brubeck began to assimilate classical influences into his jazz performances.
▪ The person we are looking for must be flexible, creative, and able to assimilate new ideas.
▪ When a child is learning something new, they try to assimilate it in terms of what they already know.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An organism assimilates another organism when it makes the latter into something like itself, as food into the body.
▪ As a child assimilates and accommodates, all of his or her schemata are elaborated.
▪ But whatever they assimilated from other cultures and traditions, they applied in a specifically Judaic context.
▪ Rather than oppose it, they shrewdly assimilated the stories into the folklore of Christmas and Saint Nicholas.
▪ The result is usually lucid and easy to assimilate.
▪ Those Illyrians who did not assimilate probably moved to the less hospitable mountainous areas, but little is known of their fate.
▪ Thus, during this period, the infant assimilates all stimuli through the reflex systems.
▪ What appears to be contrary can always be assimilated as evidence of repression, or as a defence mechanism.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Assimilate

Assimilate \As*sim"i*late\, v. i.

  1. To become similar or like something else. [R.]

  2. 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.
    --Arbuthnot.

  3. 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.
    --J. H. Newman.

Assimilate

Assimilate \As*sim"i*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Assimilated; p. pr. & vb. n. Assimilating.] [L. assimilatus, p. p. of assimilare; ad + similare to make like, similis like. See Similar, Assemble, Assimilate.]

  1. To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.
    --Sir M. Hale.

    To assimilate our law to the law of Scotland.
    --John Bright.

    Fast falls a fleecy; the downy flakes Assimilate all objects.
    --Cowper.

  2. To liken; to compa?e. [R.]

  3. 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.
    --Sir I. Newton.

    His mind had no power to assimilate the lessons.
    --Merivale.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
assimilate

early 15c., from Latin assimilatus "feigned, pretended, fictitious," past participle of assimilare "to make like," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + simulare "make similar," from similis "like, resembling" (see similar). Originally transitive (with to); intransitive use first recorded 1837. Related: Assimilated; assimilating.

Wiktionary
assimilate

vb. 1 To incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion. 2 To incorporate or absorb knowledge into the mind. 3 To absorb a group of people into a community. 4 To compare a thing to something similar. 5 To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.

WordNet
assimilate

  1. v. take up mentally; "he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe" [syn: absorb, ingest, take in]

  2. become similar to one's environment; "Immigrants often want to assimilate quickly" [ant: dissimilate]

  3. make similar; "This country assimilates immigrants very quickly" [ant: dissimilate]

  4. take (gas, light or heat) into a solution [syn: imbibe]

  5. become similar in sound; "The nasal assimialates to the following consonant" [ant: dissimilate]

Usage examples of "assimilate".

On the contrary, when apperception is violated, and new knowledge is only half understood and assimilated there can be but little feeling of satisfaction.

They have been exposed to more input, so much they have been unable to appraise and assimilate it, but are able to turn it into immediate output, impressively glib, and commercially sincere.

Added to these numbers are those of the Eastern European populationsexcluding the Jewswho, although assimilable, have not been assimilated.

I was assimilated by the Borg at age six, years before my childhood would have come to an end.

The fact is that any nanites that interact with my nanoprobes in the manner you desire will be assimilated into the Borg Collective.

Memories of the thousands of people she had assimilated as a Borg drone rushed at her.

Once they gained access to enough nanites, the assimilated ones began transmitting a virus through subspace.

I suspect that what few nanites Pek has managed to bring back on-line will be assimilated, now that the microwave pulse is nonfunctional and the Ushekti nanites are no longer isolated.

Nashi trembled with the effort of trying to move within her assimilated outer coaling.

Even the nanites that have already been assimilated would be affected because Borg nanoprobes are in constant contact with each other, right?

Broken glass lay shattered on the streets, and great numbers of Chiar, paralyzed by their own assimilated outer coatings, stood like statues.

Seven will be able to shut down the assimilated nanites in ten minutes.

Then she turned and let them flick out to touch the closest Chiar so she could steal a few of its assimilated nanites and make comparisons.

Nor did they separate non-Westerners from Westerners when the incoming non-Westerners sought to preserve no barrier of their own: during the youth of our Culture, on the Eastern Marches of Europe, many thousands of Slavs were assimilated into the European races, disappeared into them and became completely European.

In examining the nature of race, we saw that Slavs could be, and have been, assimilated by European Culture-populations.