The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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. To liken; to compa?e. [R.]
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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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: assimilate)
Usage examples of "assimilated".
After the component parts of the organism have assimilated the nutritious elements of particular kinds of food for a certain length of time, they lose the power of effecting the necessary changes for proper nutrition, and a supply of other material is imperatively demanded.
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.
The Slavic groups are apparently slowly being assimilated, but even if they disappeared entirely, the remaining Culturally-parasitic groups would comprise a pathological condition of the utmost seriousness for America.
The provisional form of the restoration of Europe to health and unification of Europe was gradually assimilated by the countries of Europe, one after the other.