Assimilate vs Italianism - What's the difference?
assimilate | italianism |
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
A loanword from the Italian language
A characteristic of Italy or the Italian people
A tendency to assimilate or imitate the culture or customs of Italy
As a verb assimilate
is to incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion.As a noun italianism is
a loanword from the italian language.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.
