Assimilate

What do we mean by assimilate?

To consume and incorporate (nutrients) into the body after digestion. intransitive verb

To transform (food) into living tissue by the process of anabolism; metabolize constructively. intransitive verb

To incorporate and absorb into the mind. intransitive verb

To make similar; cause to resemble. intransitive verb

To alter (a sound) by assimilation. intransitive verb

To absorb (immigrants or a culturally distinct group) into the prevailing culture. intransitive verb

To become assimilated. intransitive verb

To make alike; cause to resemble.

In philology, to render accordant, or less discordant, in sound; bring to or toward agreement in mode of utterance: said of alphabetic sounds as affected by other neighboring sounds, generally (but not always) in the same word. See assimilation, .

To compare; liken; class.

To convert into a substance suitable for absorption by an animal or vegetable system; absorb and incorporate into the system; incorporate with organic tissues: as, to assimilate food.

To bring into conformity; adapt.

To conform to; make one's own; adopt.

To become similar; become like something or somebody else; harmonize.

To be taken into and incorporated with another body; be converted into the substance of another body, as food by digestion.

To perform the act of converting anything, as food, into the substance of that which converts it: as, “birds assimilate … less than beasts,”

To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between. transitive verb

To liken; to compa�e. transitive verb

To appropriate and transform or incorporate into the substance of the assimilating body; to absorb or appropriate, as nourishment. transitive verb

Something that is or has been assimilated.

What the Borg does in startrek, destroying difference among people in order to make the perfect society. What Jews had to do in antisemitic Europe in the 19th century. What every minority is expected to do. Urban Dictionary

Absorption of a minority group within a larger population; distinct from integration in that it implies a loss of cultural identity and ultimately of individuality. Usually relates to the pressure on immigrants to conform to the expectations of the mass culture in their new country. More recently applied to the aggressive subjugation of races by the Borg, and hence to a person joining a large faceless group of stupid people. Urban Dictionary

1. To gather ideas in order to understand a subject. 2. To tie a subject to a multitude of other ideas and references. Urban Dictionary

(1)The act of being assimilated; usually by the Borg. Or, (2)the absorbtion of a foreign body into a living being. Urban Dictionary

It is what the United State's government did to the indigenous tribes in order to cast out the inner "native" from them. Involved sending the children to the state-run boarding schools in order to destroy their "savage" culture. In many cases, assimilation was the solution for the government to obtain land, stripping the indigenous of precious resources. Urban Dictionary

The USA. Urban Dictionary

Assimilation isn't living together as friends, it never was. Urban Dictionary

Absorption of a minority group within a larger population. Urban Dictionary

To get converted to a different band while high. Urban Dictionary

To fit in with the Americans around you or go the fuck back where you came from. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to assimilate:
assimilate, assimulate, assibilate, assimilated, assimilable, dissimilate, assimilates, assimilative, assimilator, reassimilate, assibiliate.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word assimilate:
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Words that rhyme with assimilate:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe assimilate:
current, possible, french, photosynthetic, better, least, born, total, labelled, first, available, new, anthesis.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective assimilate:
partitioning, supply, transport, translocation, stream, distribution, production, concentration, export, demand, allocation, utilization, availability, flow, knowledge, nutrients, emotion, matter, transfer, pool, energy, character, storage, culture, feelings, supplies, glucose, none, calcium, women, flux, rate, mitigation, salts, format, food, iron.

Words that sound like assimilate:
assimilate, assimulate, assimilator, assimilates, dissimilate, acidulate, assimilated, assimilating, assimilatory, escalate, immolate, dissimulate, aciculate, assument, isolate, oscillate, assembled, annihilate, ventilate, simulate, assult, assimilation, ululate, assonate, iseult, eschalot, facimile, acidulent, pustulate, assumably, astolat, canulate, ice melt.