assimilate
verb
/əˈsɪm.ɪ.leɪt/
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- (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.
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assimiler
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- (transitive) To incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion.
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assimiler,
absorber
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- (transitive) To incorporate or absorb (knowledge) into the mind.
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assimiler,
digérer
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assimilation
noun
/əˌsɪməˈleɪʃən/
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- 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.
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assimilation
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assimilable
adjective
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- Capable of being assimilated; susceptible to assimilation.
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assimilable
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