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Absorbed vs Assimilated - What's the difference?

absorbed | assimilated |

As verbs the difference between absorbed and assimilated

is that absorbed is (absorb) while assimilated is (assimilate).

As an adjective absorbed

is fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed .

absorbed

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed.
  • Something that has been absorbed, taken in, engulfed, imbibed, or assimilated.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (absorb)

    • Derived terms

    * absorbed dose * self-absorbed

    See also

    * adsorbed

    References

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    assimilated

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (assimilate)

    • assimilate

    English

    Verb

    (assimilat)
  • To incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion.
    • Food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue.
  • * Isaac Newton
    • Hence also animals and vegetables may assimilate their nourishment.
  • To incorporate or absorb knowledge into the mind.
    • The teacher paused in her lecture to allow the students to assimilate what she had said.
  • * Merivale
    • His mind had no power to assimilate the lessons.
  • To absorb a group of people into a community.
    • The aliens in the science-fiction film wanted to assimilate human beings into their own race.
  • To compare a thing to something similar.
  • To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.
  • * John Bright
    • to assimilate our law to the law of Scotland
  • * Cowper
    • Fast falls a fleecy shower; the downy flakes / Assimilate all objects.

    Synonyms

    *(To incorporate or absorb knowledge into the mind) process *(absorb a group of people into a community) integrate