Assimilate vs Comprehension - What's the difference?
assimilate | comprehension |
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
thorough understanding
(logic) The totality of intensions, that is, attributes, characters, marks, properties, or qualities, that the object possesses, or else the totality of intensions that are pertinent to the context of a given discussion.
(computing) a compact syntax for generating a list in some functional programming languages
As a verb assimilate
is to incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion.As a noun comprehension is
.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.