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Assimilate vs Harmonize - What's the difference?

assimilate | harmonize |

As verbs the difference between assimilate and harmonize

is that assimilate is to incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion while harmonize is to be in (l) (l).

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

    harmonize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (British)

    Verb

  • To be in (l) (l).
  • (music) To play or sing in harmony.
  • To bring things into harmony, or to make things (l).
  • To provide the harmony for a (l).