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Assimilates vs Static - What's the difference?

assimilates | static |

As a verb assimilates

is .

As an adjective static is

unchanging; that cannot or does not change.

As a noun static is

interference on a broadcast signal caused by atmospheric disturbances; heard as crackles on radio, or seen as random specks on television.

assimilates

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

    static

    English

    Alternative forms

    * statick

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Unchanging; that cannot or does not change.
  • Immobile; fixed in place; having no motion.
  • *
  • (programming) Occupying fixed memory, allocated when a program is loaded.
  • Synonyms

    * stable * (Having no motion) still

    Antonyms

    * (Unchanging) dynamic * (Having no motion) dynamic, kinetic, mobile * (computing) dynamic

    Derived terms

    * hydrostatic * statical * staticity

    Noun

    (-)
  • Interference on a broadcast signal caused by atmospheric disturbances; heard as crackles on radio, or seen as random specks on television.
  • (by extension) Interference or obstruction from people.
  • Something that is not part of any perceived universe phenomena; having no motion; no particle; no wavelength.
  • Static electricity.
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