🇫🇷 fr en 🇬🇧

assimiler verb

  /a.si.mi.le/
  • Absorber les aliments lors de la digestion
  • Incorporer du savoir, des connaissances dans l’esprit
  • Incorporer quelqu'un, une minorité à un groupe social, lui faire prendre les caractères de celui-ci
 assimilate
  • Présenter comme semblables deux ou plusieurs personnes, ou deux ou plusieurs choses
 assimilate, equate

🇬🇧 en fr 🇫🇷

assimilate verb

  /əˈsɪm.ɪ.leɪt/
  • (transitive) To absorb (a person or people) into a community or culture.
  • (transitive, rare, used with "to" or "with") To liken, compare to something similar.
 assimiler
  • (transitive) To incorporate or absorb (knowledge) into the mind.
 assimiler, digérer
  • (transitive) To incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion.
 assimiler, absorber

assimilation noun

  /əˌsɪməˈleɪʃən/
  • The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
  • The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
  • (by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
  • (phonology) A sound change process by which the phonetics of a speech segment becomes more like that of another segment in a word (or at a word boundary), so that a change of phoneme occurs.
  • (sociology, cultural studies) The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.
 assimilation

assimilable adjective

  • Capable of being assimilated; susceptible to assimilation.
 assimilable
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