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Assimilate vs Acquisition - What's the difference?

assimilate | acquisition |

As a verb assimilate

is to incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion.

As a noun acquisition is

the act or process of acquiring.

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

    acquisition

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or process of acquiring.
    • The acquisition of sports equipment can be fun in itself.
  • The thing acquired or gained; a gain.
    • ''That graphite tennis racquet is quite an acquisition .

    Synonyms

    * (an act of acquiring) accession, procurement * (a thing acquired) accession, acquirement

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