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assimilated 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/əˈsiməˌlāt/,
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assimilated, past participle; assimilates, 3rd person singular present; assimilating, present participle; assimilated, past tense;
  1. Take in (information, ideas, or culture) and understand fully
    • - Marie tried to assimilate the week's events
  2. Absorb and integrate (people, ideas, or culture) into a wider society or culture
    • - pop trends are assimilated into the mainstream with alarming speed
    • - the converts were assimilated into the society of their conquerors
  3. Absorb or integrate and use for one's own benefit
    • - the music business assimilated whatever aspects of punk it could turn into profit
  4. (of the body or any biological system) Absorb and digest (food or nutrients)
    • - the sugars in the fruit are readily assimilated by the body
  5. Cause (something) to resemble; liken
    • - philosophers had assimilated thought to perception
  6. Come to resemble
    • - the churches assimilated to a certain cultural norm
  7. Make (a sound) more like another in the same or next word

  1. (assimilate) absorb: take up mentally; "he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe"
  2. (assimilate) become similar to one's environment; "Immigrants often want to assimilate quickly"
  3. (assimilating) capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution; "an assimilative substance
  4. (assimilation) the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family
  5. (assimilation) the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another
  6. (assimilation) the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion
  7. (Assimilation (biology)) Biological assimilation, or bioassimilation, involves one of two different processes to supply animal cells with nutrients. The first is the process of absorbing vitamins, minerals, and other chemicals from food within the gastrointestinal tract. ...
  8. (Assimilation (French colonial)) Assimilation was one ideological basis of French colonial policy in the 19th and 20th centuries. In contrast with British imperial policy, the French taught their subjects that, by adopting French language and culture, they could eventually become French. ...
  9. (Assimilation (meteorology)) In Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) systems, data assimilation is the process of objectively adapting the model state to observations in a statistically optimal way taking into account model and observation errors. ...
  10. (Assimilation (phonology)) Assimilation is a common phonological process by which the phonetics of a speech segment becomes more like that of another segment in a word (or at a word boundary). ...
  11. (Assimilation (psychology)) Constructivism is a theory of knowledge (epistemology) that argues that humans generate knowledge and meaning from an interaction between their experiences and their ideas (During infancy, it is an interaction between their experiences and their reflexes or behavior- ...
  12. (Assimilation (Star Trek)) The Borg are a fictional pseudo-race of cybernetic organisms depicted in the Star Trek universe.
  13. (Assimilate) Absorb digested food from the intestines.
  14. (Assimilate) to absorb and incorporate - to digest.
  15. (Assimilate) The process of adopting the customs, language, and beliefs of a prevailing culture.
  16. (ASSIMILATE) This is the ability of mercury to absorb gold, silver or platinum into a common ball, or alloy, called amalgam, while ignoring lighter sands and gravel.
  17. (Assimilate) A response to diversity in which you surrender some or most of your ways and adopt cultural patterns of another group.
  18. (Assimilate) the process of incorporating new ideas to make them part of one's present knowledge
  19. (assimilate) the destruction of an Aboriginal Indigenous people by absorption into the mass of immigrant peoples, colloquially referred to as the melting pot.  The first meaning of assimilate in the dictionary is destruction of separate existence by digestion. ...
  20. (Assimilation) process of becoming incorporated into mainstream society. Strict observance of Jewish laws and customs pertaining to dress, food, and religious holidays tends to keep Jewish people separate and distinct from the culture of the country within which they are living. ...
  21. (Assimilation) The ability of a body of water to purify itself of pollutants.
  22. (Assimilation) A 19th century idea that Indigenous people should be 'improved' by being 'civilised' and becoming Christians and learning how to work as Europeans did. From the 1930s assimilation became government policy. *
  23. (Assimilation) After an issue's underwriters have sold all shares, a new issue is considered assimilated by investors.
  24. (Assimilation) Borg term for forced integration of lifeforms and technology into their Collective. For humanoids, assimilation implies transformation into a drone, thereby completely losing their individuality. Nanoprobes are key components in this process. ...
  25. (Assimilation) the process whereby newcomers to society are encouraged to give up their cultural way of life and accommodate as quickly as possible to values and culture of the host society. ...