Assimilate vs Simulate - What's the difference?
assimilate | simulate |
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 model, replicate, duplicate the behavior, appearance or properties of
As verbs the difference between assimilate and simulate
is that assimilate is to incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion while simulate is to model, replicate, duplicate the behavior, appearance or properties of.As an adjective simulate is
feigned; pretended.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) integratesimulate
English
Verb
(simulat)- We will use a smoke machine to simulate the fog you will actually encounter.