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What (who) is assimilate - definition
2019 FILM DIRECTED BY JOHN MURLOWSKI
assimilate
(assimilates, assimilating, assimilated)
1.
When people such as immigrants assimilate into a community or when that community assimilates them, they become an accepted part of it.
There is every sign that new Asian-Americans are just as willing to assimilate...
His family tried to assimilate into the white and Hispanic communities...
The Vietnamese are trying to assimilate themselves and become Americans...
= integrate
VERB: V, V into/with n, V pron-refl
• assimilation
They promote social integration and assimilation of minority ethnic groups into the culture.
= integration
N-UNCOUNT: usu N of n
2.
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.
= absorb
VERB: V n
• assimilation
This technique brings life to instruction and eases assimilation of knowledge.
N-UNCOUNT: usu N of n
assimilate
¦ verb
1. take in and fully understand (information or ideas).
(of a society or culture) absorb and integrate (people, ideas, or culture).
2. absorb and digest (food or nutrients).
3. regard as or become similar.
4. Phonetics make (a sound) more like another in the same or next word.
Derivatives
assimilable adjective
assimilation noun
assimilative adjective
assimilator noun
assimilatory adjective
Origin
ME: from L. assimilat-, assimilare 'absorb, incorporate', from ad- 'to' + similis 'like'.
Assimilate
·vi To become similar or like something else.
II. Assimilate ·vt To Liken; to compa/e.
III. Assimilate ·vt To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.
IV. Assimilate ·vi To change and appropriate nourishment so as to make it a part of the substance of the assimilating body.
V. Assimilate ·vi To be converted into the substance of the assimilating body; to become incorporated; as, some kinds of food assimilate more readily than others.
VI. Assimilate ·vt To appropriate and transform or incorporate into the substance of the assimilating body; to absorb or appropriate, as nourishment; as, food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue.
Wikipedia
Assimilate
Assimilate is a 2019 American science fiction horror film directed by John Murlowski and starring Joel Courtney, Andi Matichak and Calum Worthy also with Mason McNulty and Cam Gigandet. It is a loose and unofficial adaptation of Jack Finney's 1954 novel The Body Snatchers.
Examples of use of assimilate
1. "The idea was that they would assimilate, it might take them longer, but ultimately they would assimilate.
2. Nor is it because they don‘t assimilate; many do.
3. On average, the engineer will assimilate more easily.
4. We worked hard to assimilate, and have only recently adjusted.
5. Equally, immigration advocates tend to want arriving workers to assimilate.