Assimilate
verb
To take in information, ideas, or culture and understand them fully.
It's difficult to assimilate so much information.
Often appears as...
- assimilate information
- assimilate knowledge
verb
To become part, or make one become part of a group, society, or culture.
Immigrants have been successfully assimilated into the community.
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- assimilate into society
- assimilate into community
verb
In biology, to absorb food or nutrients into the body after digestion.
Plant roots assimilate nutrients from the soil.
Often appears as...
- assimilate nutrients
- assimilate food
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verb
To take in information, ideas, or culture and understand them fully.
It's difficult to assimilate so much information.
Often appears as...
- assimilate information
- assimilate knowledge
verb
To become part, or make one become part of a group, society, or culture.
Immigrants have been successfully assimilated into the community.
Often appears as...
- assimilate into society
- assimilate into community
verb
In biology, to absorb food or nutrients into the body after digestion.
Plant roots assimilate nutrients from the soil.
Often appears as...
- assimilate nutrients
- assimilate food
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/3Full Understanding
Use when someone needs to grasp a concept completely, not just memorize it.
To solve these math problems, you must assimilate the underlying principles.
Pro Tip 2/3Active Process
It implies an active, deliberate effort to deeply understand information.
You can read the book, but you'll need to assimilate the ideas to discuss it.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Learning
Different from 'learn.' It's about incorporating new info into existing knowledge.
Students are expected to assimilate new concepts with what they've previously learned.
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How to find work you...
what we're good at, what we're terrible at. And if we don't spend time paying attention to that and assimilating that learning and applying it to the rest of our lives, it's all for nothing. Every day, every week, every month of every year I spend some time just reflecting on what went right, what went wrong, and what do I want to repeat, what can I apply more to my life.
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Safari Live - Day 276 PIPE...
like that I don't think you guys a lot of you realize how appreciate it it often is by a lot of the presenters yes I certainly appreciate its I don't know a lot of the others do when we speak see a lot of the guys you know everyone kind of really appreciates being helped out from time to time as much as we try and kind of gain knowledge and assimilate
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A brief history of goths...
who assimilated into local cultures, though many of their names still mark the map. This was the end of the Classical Period and the beginning of what many call the Dark Ages. Although Roman culture was never fully lost, its influence declined and new art styles arose
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The power in your name PIPE...
alphabets different letters of the alphabet but never my full name that makes an impact on you in many cases I contemplate it should I change my name should I abbreviate it to make it more convenient or to assimilate but even
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Understanding the rise...
a history of conquest, occupation, absorption, assimilation and so on, led to the process by which, over time, this notion of the Han emerged -- of course, nurtured by a growing and very powerful sense of cultural identity.
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My story of love and...
dealing with the impact of their assimilation, and there have only been a handful of studies that follow transracial adoptees over a lifetime. I know that people around me could not understand my adoption grief.
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and punished for speaking their languages. Assimilation was a complement to genocide. Seven thousand languages are alive today, but few are recognized by their own governments or supported online.
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Stewart Brand: Building...
Something you didn't expect that caps what you did expect. Then there's the return. You've got to have a gradual return to the ordinary world, so you have time to assimilate what you've learned.
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Izzy PIPE Hard Time
assimilate to prison life in order to fit in he's deliberately chosen to flaunt his unique identity despite the potential trouble that identity brings in this particular prison you can't
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Our immigration...
When nativists said that immigrants weren't useful, their allies said yes, they are. When nativists accused immigrants of being others, their allies promised that they would assimilate.
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How to find work you...
what we're good at, what we're terrible at. And if we don't spend time paying attention to that and assimilating that learning and applying it to the rest of our lives, it's all for nothing. Every day, every week, every month of every year I spend some time just reflecting on what went right, what went wrong, and what do I want to repeat, what can I apply more to my life.
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Safari Live - Day 276 PIPE...
like that I don't think you guys a lot of you realize how appreciate it it often is by a lot of the presenters yes I certainly appreciate its I don't know a lot of the others do when we speak see a lot of the guys you know everyone kind of really appreciates being helped out from time to time as much as we try and kind of gain knowledge and assimilate
Video examples
A brief history of goths...
who assimilated into local cultures, though many of their names still mark the map. This was the end of the Classical Period and the beginning of what many call the Dark Ages. Although Roman culture was never fully lost, its influence declined and new art styles arose
Video examples
The power in your name PIPE...
alphabets different letters of the alphabet but never my full name that makes an impact on you in many cases I contemplate it should I change my name should I abbreviate it to make it more convenient or to assimilate but even
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Understanding the rise...
a history of conquest, occupation, absorption, assimilation and so on, led to the process by which, over time, this notion of the Han emerged -- of course, nurtured by a growing and very powerful sense of cultural identity.
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My story of love and...
dealing with the impact of their assimilation, and there have only been a handful of studies that follow transracial adoptees over a lifetime. I know that people around me could not understand my adoption grief.
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How to save a language...
and punished for speaking their languages. Assimilation was a complement to genocide. Seven thousand languages are alive today, but few are recognized by their own governments or supported online.
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Stewart Brand: Building...
Something you didn't expect that caps what you did expect. Then there's the return. You've got to have a gradual return to the ordinary world, so you have time to assimilate what you've learned.
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Izzy PIPE Hard Time
assimilate to prison life in order to fit in he's deliberately chosen to flaunt his unique identity despite the potential trouble that identity brings in this particular prison you can't
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Our immigration...
When nativists said that immigrants weren't useful, their allies said yes, they are. When nativists accused immigrants of being others, their allies promised that they would assimilate.
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Joel Grey
American Actor
After my bar mitzvah, I started to assimilate, to really not pay attention to my roots. The anti-Semitic experiences of my youth had been very painful. You try to put all that in the past and become a person of the world. I think that's the right thing to do. But it's not right to leave out who you really are. That's a tragedy.
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Art Alexakis
American Musician
Being a musician, especially at the major label where you work for so long, it becomes a cycle. Write a record, make a record, tour. It's just this cycle, and I don't think there's any life built into it with time to assimilate what's going on in front of you and what's going on in your head.
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Daryl Gates
American Public Servant
No police department should hire more quickly than they can assimilate the people that they bring in, and we did. I take responsibility for it. It was the first opportunity I had to hire, and I wanted to do it, and I take responsibility.
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Henry Mayhew
English Journalist
A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French Philosopher
We have but one permanent home: heaven - that's still the old truth that we always have to re-learn - and it's only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.
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Rudolf Steiner
Austrian Philosopher
We must assimilate the thought that life between death and a new birth is so constituted that everything we do awakens an echo in the environment.
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Linda Sarsour
American Activist
Our number one and top priority is to protect and defend our community. It is not to assimilate and please any other people and authority.
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Ross Douthat
American Author
When immigration proceeds at a steady but modest clip, deep change comes slowly, and there's time for assimilation to do its work.
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Radhanath Swami
American Clergyman
We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.
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E. L. Doctorow
American Author
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
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Joel Grey
American Actor
After my bar mitzvah, I started to assimilate, to really not pay attention to my roots. The anti-Semitic experiences of my youth had been very painful. You try to put all that in the past and become a person of the world. I think that's the right thing to do. But it's not right to leave out who you really are. That's a tragedy.
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Art Alexakis
American Musician
Being a musician, especially at the major label where you work for so long, it becomes a cycle. Write a record, make a record, tour. It's just this cycle, and I don't think there's any life built into it with time to assimilate what's going on in front of you and what's going on in your head.
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Daryl Gates
American Public Servant
No police department should hire more quickly than they can assimilate the people that they bring in, and we did. I take responsibility for it. It was the first opportunity I had to hire, and I wanted to do it, and I take responsibility.
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Henry Mayhew
English Journalist
A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French Philosopher
We have but one permanent home: heaven - that's still the old truth that we always have to re-learn - and it's only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.
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Rudolf Steiner
Austrian Philosopher
We must assimilate the thought that life between death and a new birth is so constituted that everything we do awakens an echo in the environment.
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Linda Sarsour
American Activist
Our number one and top priority is to protect and defend our community. It is not to assimilate and please any other people and authority.
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Ross Douthat
American Author
When immigration proceeds at a steady but modest clip, deep change comes slowly, and there's time for assimilation to do its work.
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Radhanath Swami
American Clergyman
We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.
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E. L. Doctorow
American Author
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
Example 1 of 10
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