Penetrate vs Integrate - What's the difference?
penetrate | integrate |
To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.
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(figuratively) To achieve understanding of, despite some obstacle; to comprehend; to understand.
* Ray
To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to move deeply.
* M. Arnold
To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.
To insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina or anus. (rfex)
To form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect.
To indicate the whole of; to give the sum or total of; as, an integrating anemometer, one that indicates or registers the entire action of the wind in a given time.
(mathematics) To subject to the operation of integration; to find the integral of.
To desegregate, as a school or neighborhood.
As verbs the difference between penetrate and integrate
is that penetrate is to enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce while integrate is to form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect.penetrate
English
(Penetration)Verb
(penetrat)- Light penetrates darkness.
- I could not penetrate Burke's opaque rhetoric.
- things which here were too subtile for us to penetrate
- to penetrate one's heart with pity
- The translator of Homer should penetrate himself with a sense of the plainness and directness of Homer's style.
- (Shakespeare)