Assimilate vs Assemble - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between assimilate and assemble

is that assimilate is to incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion while assemble is to put together.

(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.

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

(assembl)

To put together.

He assembled the model ship.

(ambitransitive) To gather as a group.

The parents assembled in the school hall.

* Milton

Thither he assembled all his train.

* Bible, 1 Kings viii. 2

All the men of Israel assembled themselves.

(computing) to translate from assembly language to machine code