Assimilation vs Change - What's the difference?
assimilation | change |
The act of assimilating]] or the state of being [[assimilate, assimilated.
* {{quote-book, year=1797, author=An English Lady, title=A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795,, chapter=, edition=
, passage=--France swarms with Gracchus's and Publicolas, who by imaginary assimilations of acts, which a change of manners has rendered different, fancy themselves more than equal to their prototypes.}}
* {{quote-news, year=1996, date=January 26, author=Bertha Husband, title=Double Identity, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=His work generally is full of assimilations and quotations from art that is not Mexican, and he's said, "Nationalism has nothing to do with my work.}}
The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
* {{quote-book, year=1908, author=Washington Gladden, title=The Church and Modern Life, chapter=, edition=
, passage=We have great need to be careful in these assimilations ; some kinds of food are rich but not easily digested.}}
(by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
(phonology) A sound change process by which the phonetics of a speech segment becomes more like that of another segment in a word (or at a word boundary), so that a change of phoneme occurs.
(sociology, cultural studies) The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.
To become something different.
(ergative) To make something into something different.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= To replace.
To replace one's clothing.
To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.)
(archaic) To exchange.
* 1610 , , by (William Shakespeare), act 1 scene 2
* 1662 , Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
To change hand while riding (a horse).
(countable) The process of becoming different.
* {{quote-magazine, title=The climate of Tibet: Pole-land
, date=2013-05-11, volume=407, issue=8835, page=80
, magazine=(The Economist)
(uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
(countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes
* {{quote-news
, year=2010
, date=December 29
, author=Mark Vesty
, title=Wigan 2 - 2 Arsenal
, work=BBC
(uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
(countable) A transfer between vehicles.
(baseball) A change-up pitch.
(lb) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
* Holder
A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
A public house; an alehouse.
* Burt
As nouns the difference between assimilation and change
is that assimilation is assimilation while change is (lb) change.assimilation
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(assimilation)Noun
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Anagrams
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Verb
(chang)citation, passage=Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.}}
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Focus on Everything, passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.
- At the first sight / they have changed eyes. (exchanged looks )
- I would give any thing to change a word or two with this person.
- to change a horse
Synonyms
* (to make something different) alter, modify * (to make something into something different) transformDerived terms
* changeable * change by reversal * change course * change direction * changeful * change out * change hands * change horses in midstream * change integrity * changeling * change one's mind * change one's tune * change places * change tack * change the channel * change the subject * change up * chop and change * everchanging * get changed * leopard change his spots * presto change-o *Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change , the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.}}
- The product is undergoing a change in order to improve it.
- Can I get change for this $100 bill please?
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- A customer who pays with a 10-pound note for a £9 item receives one pound in change .
- The train journey from Bristol to Nottingham includes a change at Birmingham.
- Four bells admit twenty-four changes in ringing.
- They call an alehouse a change .
