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- Dictionaryassimilate/əˈsɪmɪleɪt/
verb
- 1. take in and understand fully (information or ideas): "Marie tried to assimilate the week's events"
- 2. regard as similar; liken: "philosophers had assimilated thought to perception"
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ASSIMILATE definition: 1. to become part of a group, country, society, etc., or to make someone or something become part…. Learn more.
1. a. : to take into the mind and thoroughly understand. assimilate information. Students need to assimilate new concepts. b. : to take in and utilize as nourishment : to absorb into the system. The body assimilates digested food. 2. a. : to absorb into the cultural tradition of a population or group. b. : to make similar.
to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb: He assimilated many new experiences on his European trip. to bring into conformity with the customs, attitudes, etc., of a dominant social group, nation, or the like; adapt or adjust: to assimilate the new immigrants.
ASSIMILATE meaning: 1. to become part of a group, country, society, etc., or to make someone or something become part…. Learn more.
Imported from Latin, assimilate has the word similar within it and in fact, means "to become like something else." If someone moves to another country, he or she will need to assimilate by adapting to and taking in the language, culture and customs of the new place.
If you assimilate new ideas, techniques, or information, you learn them or adopt them. I was speechless, still trying to assimilate the enormity of what he'd told me. [ VERB noun ]
[intransitive, transitive] to become, or cause somebody to become, a part of a country or community rather than remaining in a separate group. assimilate (into/to something) New arrivals feel the pressure to assimilate. As a Chinese teen I tried to assimilate into Canadian culture.
assimilate. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English as‧sim‧i‧late /əˈsɪməleɪt/ verb 1 [ transitive] to completely understand and begin to use new ideas, information etc SYN absorb It will take time to assimilate all these facts. 2 [ intransitive, transitive] if people assimilate, or are assimilated into a country or group ...
ASSIMILATE definition: 1. to understand and remember new information 2. to become part of a group, society, etc, or to…. Learn more.
1. to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb: to assimilate new ideas. 2. to bring into conformity with the customs, attitudes, etc., of a dominant cultural group or national culture. 3. to convert (ingested food) to substances suitable for incorporation into the body and its tissues.
