Assimilate vs Infiltrate - What's the difference?
assimilate | infiltrate |
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
To surreptitiously penetrate, enter or gain access.
* Addison
To cause a fluid to pass through a substance by filtration.
To send soldiers through gaps in the enemy line.
(of an intravenous needle) To move from a vein, remaining in the body.
As verbs the difference between assimilate and infiltrate
is that assimilate is to incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion while infiltrate is to surreptitiously penetrate, enter or gain access.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.
Synonyms
*(To incorporate or absorb knowledge into the mind) process *(absorb a group of people into a community) integrateinfiltrate
English
Verb
(infiltrat)- The water infiltrates through the porous rock.
