Assimilate

Definition: Assimilate

Assimilate

Verb

1. Take up, as of knowledge or beliefs.

2. Become similar to one's environment; "Immigrants often want to assimilate quickly".

3. Make similar.

4. Take into solution, as of gas, light, or heat.

5. Become similar in sound; in phonetics.

Date "assimilate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1663. (references)

Etymology: Assimilate \As*sim"i*late\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Assimilated; Assimilating.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Assimilate

Synonyms: absorb (v), imbibe (v), ingest (v), take in (v). (additional references)

Antonym: dissimilate (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Agreement	Verb: be accordant; Adjective: agree, accord, harmonize; correspond, tally, respond; meet, suit, fit, befit, do, adapt itself to; fall in with, chime in with, square with, quadrate with, consort with, comport with; dovetail, assimilate; fit like a glove, fit to a tittle, fit to a T; match; become one; homologate.
Continuance in action	Convert into, resolve into; make, render; mold, form; remodel, new model, refound, reform, reorganize; assimilate to, bring to, reduce to.
Salubrity	Verb: be salubrious; Adjective:; agree with; assimilate.
Similarity	Render similar; Adjective: assimilate, approximate, bring near; connaturalize, make alike; rhyme, pun.
Uniformity	Render uniform, homogenize; Adjective: assimilate, level, smooth, dress.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Assimilate

English words defined with "assimilate": acculturate, Assimilated, Assimulate ♦ Celticize ♦ Reassimilate. (references)

Specialty definitions using "assimilate": Academy ♦ Comamonas testosteroni ♦ Dilution Ratio. (references)

Etymologies containing "assimilate": Assimulate. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Your attempts to assimilate this drone will fail. (Star Trek: Voyager; writing credit: Douglas Day Stewart)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	A Final Promise: The Campaign to Assimilate the Indians, 1880-1920 (reference) American Indian Policy and American Reform: Case Studies of the Campaign to Assimilate the American Indians (reference) Assimilate Transport in Plants (reference) La disciplina degli enti lirici e istituzioni concertistiche assimilate (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Assimilate & Destroy [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Poland	The Government does not have funds to help assimilate those persons who receive permission to permanently reside in the country. (references)
Economic History	Latvia	Historically, Latvia always has had a fairly large Russian, Jewish, German and Polish minority, but postwar emigration, deportations and Soviet Russification policies from 1939-1989 dropped the percentage of ethnic Latvians in Latvia from 73% to 52%. In an attempt to preserve the Latvian language and avoid ethnic Latvians becoming a minority in their own country, Latvia's strict language law and draft citizenship law have caused many non-citizen resident Russians concern over their ability to assimilate, despite Latvian legal guarantees of universal human and civil rights regardless of citizenship. (references)
Indigenous People	Taiwan	In addition the authorities instituted social programs to help Aborigines assimilate into the dominant Chinese society. (references)
Minorities	Slovak Republic	In August 2000, SNS Member of Parliament Vitazolslv Moric proposed setting up reservations for Slovak Roma who refuse to assimilate into society. (references)
	Kenya	Many persons of African descent resent those of Asian descent for their affluence, and for their reluctance to assimilate African culture and to employ blacks, particularly in management positions. (references)
	Croatia	Protective of their culture and reluctant to assimilate, Roma faced a host of obstacles, including language (many, especially women, have only limited Croatian language skills), lack of education, lack of citizenship and identity documents, high unemployment, societal discrimination, and lack of government will to address such issues. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Assimilate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 86.52% of the time. "Assimilate" is used about 178 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	86.52%	154	25,326
Lexical Verb (base form)	12.36%	22	74,468
Noun (singular)	1.12%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	178	N/A

Expressions using "assimilate": assimilate food ♦ assimilate knowledge ♦ assimilate to. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "assimilate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		assimileer (absorb). (various references)

Albanian		asimiloj, tret (cut, dissipate, dissolve, lose, macerate, melt, thaw), përvetësoj (absorb, adopt, annex, appropriate, digest, embezzle, embrace, form, imbibe, misappropriate, mop up, peculate, pocket, pre empt). (various references)

Arabic		‏فهم جيدا, ‏هضم (assimilation, digest, digestion, predigest, stomach), ‏تمثل (picture), ‏جعله مشابها, ‏إستوعب (absorb, compass, digest, get around, imbibe, ingest, realize, stomach, suck, swallow, take in), ‏شبه (affinity, compare, comparison, feature, imagine, like, liken, likeness, parallelism, propinquity, quasi-, resemblance, resemble, resole, sameness, semblance, similarity, similitude, take after). (various references)

Bulgarian		усвоявам (acquire, adopt, catch up, digest, master, naturalize, take up), наподобявам (become like, imitate, participate), асимилирам. (various references)

Chinese		同化 (Assimilated, Assimilating, Assimilative), 吸�"� (absorb). (various references)

Czech		asimilovat, vstřebat (absorb, occlude), přizpùsobit (accommodate, accustom to, adapt, adjust, comply, conform, fit, modulate, quadrate, readjust, regulate, suit, tailor, temper, tune). (various references)

Dutch		in zich opnemen (absorb), assimileren (absorb). (various references)

Esperanto		asimili. (various references)

Farsi		یکسان کردن , همانندساختن , هم جنس کردن , وفق دادن (Accord, Adapt, Adjust, Attune, Conform, Jump, Reconcile, Square, Suit, Tune), تلفیق کردن , تحلیل رفتن (Consume, Dwindle, Eat, Gnaw), سازش کردن (Agree, Comport), شبیه ساختن , دربدن جذب کردن . (various references)

Finnish		yhteyttää, sulattaa toisiinsa (amalgamate, fuse). (various references)

French		assimiler. (various references)

German		aufnehmen (absorb, admit, affiliate, begin, book, commence, enroll, enter into, establish, film, grabbing, hold, include, incorporate, ingest, list, photograph, pick up, raise, receive, record, sop up, take, take down, take in, take on, take up, tape, to absorb, to affiliate, to assimilate, to host, to incorporate, to ingest, to record, twist, write in), assimilieren (absorb). (various references)

Greek		αφομοιώνω (absorb). (various references)

Hebrew		לעכל (comprehend, consume, digest, take in), ל�"תבולל, לטמע. (various references)

Hungarian		asszimilál (absorb, to assimilate), hasonul (to assimilate), beolvaszt (melt down, nationalize, smelt down, to affiliate, to assimilate, to incorporate, to meld, to smelt down). (various references)

Indonesian		mengasimilasikan, memesrakan, membaur (diffuse), beradaptasi (adapt). (various references)

Italian		assorbire (absorb, adsorb, blot, engross, imbibe, merge, preoccupy, soak up, sop up, sponge, suck), assimilare (absorb, digest, imbibe). (various references)

Korean		동�"하십시�". (various references)

Manx		cosoylaghey (allegorize, associate, compare). (various references)

Papiamen		asimilá (absorb). (various references)

Pig Latin		assimilateay

Portuguese		assimilar (absorb, adoptive, compare, imbibe, take in). (various references)

Romanian		asimila (compare, digest), se asimila, omologa (acknowledge, admit, approve, confirm, homologate, ratify), egaliza (compensate, dub, equalize, even, level, planish), digera (digest, get over), însuşi (assume, himself, oneself). (various references)

Russian		усваивать (adopt, assimilates, digest, internalize, metabolize). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		asimilirati, stopiti (merge), prilagoditi (adapt, gear to, modify, pitch, square, suit, tailor), odomaćiti (naturalize, take on), izjednačiti (counterbalance, equal, equalize, equiponderate, even, offset). (various references)

Spanish		asimilarse, asimilar (absorb, adapt, digest, equal). (various references)

Swedish		assimilera. (various references)

Turkish		sindirmek (cow, damp, digest, Hector, overawe, soften, stand for, stomach), benzetmek (associate, bash up, belabor, belabour, clobber, compare, do one's job for one, imitate, knock galley-west, liken, simulate, sort smb. out), benimsenmek, benimsemek (adopt, be sold on, commandeer, embrace, espouse, interiorize, internalize, latch on to, seize, seize upon, take up seriously), özümsenmek, özümsemek (absorb, internalize), özümlemek (internalize, suck, suck in). (various references)

Turkmen		цzleюdirmek (cope). (various references)

Ukrainian		уподібнуватися, уподібнувати, засвоювати (adopt, digest, internalize, learn), асимілюватися, асимілювати, прирівнювати (equate). (various references)

Welsh		tebygu (liken, resemble, suppose), cymathu. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "assimilate": assimilated, assimilates. (additional references)
	Words containing "assimilate": unassimilated. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Assimilate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: asimilate, assemillate, assimalate, assimilat, assimilater, assimiliate, assimilite, assimillate, assimiltate, assimlate, assimmilate, assmilate, assymilate, asymilate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "assimilate" (pronounced usi"mulā't)
4	-u l ā' t	accumulate, adulate, annihilate, articulate, calculate, circulate, coagulate, congratulate, copulate, correlate, depopulate, distillate, emulate, encapsulate, escalate, extrapolate, flagellate, formulate, gastrulate, inoculate, insulate, interpolate, isolate, lanceolate, manipulate, miscalculate, mutilate, oscillate, overregulate, percolate, populate, postulate, recalculate, recapitulate, reformulate, regulate, reregulate, simulate, speculate, stimulate, stipulate, strangulate, tabulate, titillate, undulate, vacillate, ventilate.
3	-l ā' t	angulate, boilerplate, breastplate, capitulate, contemplate, ejaculate, electroplate, legislate, nameplate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-i-l-m-s-s-t"
	-2 letters: elitisms, malaises, maltases, slimiest.
	-3 letters: aimless, aliases, amities, atlases, elitism, laities, liaises, limiest, limites, malaise, malates, maltase, matless, miseats, mislies, misseat, missile, mitises, salamis, salties, samiels, samites, samlets, seismal, silesia, similes, stasima, stimies, tamales, tamises.
	-4 letters: aaliis, aisles, alates, assail, emails, islets, istles, lamest, lamiae, lamias, lassie, leasts, liaise, limits, mailes, maists, malate.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-i-l-m-s-s-t"
	+1 letter: assimilated, assimilates.
	+2 letters: acclimatises, antirealisms, assimilative, materialises, materialisms, materialists.
	+3 letters: bilateralisms, unassimilated.
	+4 letters: assumabilities, immaterialisms, immaterialists, maladministers, misarticulates, misevaluations, patresfamilias, sensationalism, theatricalisms.
	+5 letters: ambisexualities, antiliberalisms, bidialectalisms, egalitarianisms, impassabilities, libertarianisms, materfamiliases, measurabilities, metastabilities, operationalisms, sensationalisms.
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