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Definition of Assimilate

1. Verb. Take up mentally. "He absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe"

2. Verb. Become similar to one's environment. "Immigrants often want to assimilate quickly"

3. Verb. Make similar. "This country assimilates immigrants very quickly"

4. Verb. Take (gas, light or heat) into a solution.

5. Verb. Become similar in sound. "The nasal assimilates to the following consonant"

Definition of Assimilate

1. v. t. To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.

2. v. i. To become similar or like something else.

Definition of Assimilate

1. Verb. To incorporate nutrients into the body after digestion. ¹

2. Verb. To incorporate or absorb knowledge into the mind. ¹

3. Verb. To absorb a group of people into a community. ¹

4. Verb. To compare something to another similar one. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Assimilate

1. [v -LATED, -LATING, -LATES]

Medical Definition of Assimilate

1. 1. To become similar or like something else. 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) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Literary usage of Assimilate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel According to S. Matthew by Willoughby Charles Allen (1907)
"... to assimilate to 12s*. Mk 8s8 has o-uo-«; but Mt 16** has ... and adds кал ßa\t airo o-oD, to assimilate to 5*°, and has то nip то ..."

2. The International Critical Commentary on the Holy Scriptures of the Old and by Samuel Rolles Driver, Charles Augustus Briggs, Alfred Plummer (1907)
"... but Mt i88 has ov/n^cp«i—tva, to assimilate to 580. ... to assimilate to s22. Mk iou = Mt 19". ..."

3. U. S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's edited by Christopher Cox (1999)
"Jackson's characterization of the role that CP executives played at the event is corroborated by other participants.121 The PRC's Efforts to assimilate ..."

4. Chinese Immigration in Its Social and Economical Aspects by George Frederick Seward (1881)
"THAT THEY WILL NOT assimilate WITH OUR PEOPLE. The views of the Chinese on this matter. The doctrine of Confucius that all on earth are of one family. ..."

5. Applied Sociology: A Treatise on the Conscious Improvement of Society by Society by Lester Frank Ward (1906)
"The failure to assimilate achievement is due to the enormous artificial inequalities in society. It is due to the conditions pointed out in Chapter VII. ..."

6. The American Japanese Problem: A Study of the Racial Relations of the East by Sidney Lewis Gulick (1914)
"Having considered this problem so far as Japanese nature and capacity are concerned, the question still remains whether we are ready to assimilate them. ..."

7. Letters and Other Writings of James Madison by James Madison (1865)
"Finally, such a work will have a tendency to assimilate gradually the codes of all the States on subjects not merely local; to assimilate them, too, ..."

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