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Assimilated vs Synthesis - What's the difference?

assimilated | synthesis |

As a verb assimilated

is (assimilate).

As a noun synthesis is

.

assimilated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (assimilate)

  • 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

    synthesis

    Noun

    (syntheses)
  • The formation of something complex or coherent by combining simpler things.
  • (chemistry) The reaction of elements or compounds to form more complex compounds.
  • (logic) A deduction from the general to the particular.
  • (philosophy) The combination of thesis and antithesis.
  • (military) In intelligence usage, the examining and combining of processed information with other information and intelligence for final interpretation; (JP 1-02).
  • (rhetoric) An apt arrangement of elements of a text, especially for euphony.
  • Antonyms

    * analysis * hypothesis