Fuse vs Assimilate - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between fuse and assimilate

is that fuse is while assimilate is to incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion.

From (etyl) fuso and (etyl) .

(en noun)

(also'' fuze ''in US ) A cord that, when lit, conveys the fire to some explosive device.

(industry, mining, military) The mechanism that ignites the charge in an explosive device.

A device to prevent the overloading of an electrical circuit.

Indicating a tendency to lose one's temper.

When talking about being laid off, he has a short fuse.

From fusion, "to melt" (back-formation).

(fus)

To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably.

To melt together.

To furnish with or install a fuse.

(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.

*(To incorporate or absorb knowledge into the mind) process *(absorb a group of people into a community) integrate