Adopt vs Assimilate - What's the difference?
adopt | assimilate |
(with relationship specified) To take by choice into relationship, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.
(with relationship implied by context) To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
(with relationship implied by context) To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild.
(with relationship implied by context) To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.
To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.(rfex)
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To select and take or approve.
To incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion.
* Isaac Newton
To incorporate or absorb knowledge into the mind.
* Merivale
To absorb a group of people into a community.
To compare a thing to something similar.
To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.
* John Bright
* Cowper
As verbs the difference between adopt and assimilate
is that adopt is to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc while assimilate is to incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion.adopt
English
Verb
(en verb)- A friend of mine recently adopted a Chinese baby girl found on the streets of Beijing.
- We're going to adopt a Dalmatian.
- This supermarket chain adopts several families every Yuletide, providing them with money and groceries for the holidays.
- to adopt the view or policy of another
- These resolutions were adopted .
assimilate
English
Verb
(assimilat)- Food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue.
- Hence also animals and vegetables may assimilate their nourishment.
- The teacher paused in her lecture to allow the students to assimilate what she had said.
- His mind had no power to assimilate the lessons.
- The aliens in the science-fiction film wanted to assimilate human beings into their own race.
- to assimilate our law to the law of Scotland
- Fast falls a fleecy shower; the downy flakes / Assimilate all objects.