Simulated vs Assimilated - What's the difference?
simulated | assimilated |
(simulate)
made to imitate something else; artificial
(assimilate)
To incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion.
* Isaac Newton
To incorporate or absorb knowledge into the mind.
* Merivale
To absorb a group of people into a community.
To compare a thing to something similar.
To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.
* John Bright
* Cowper
As verbs the difference between simulated and assimilated
is that simulated is (simulate) while assimilated is (assimilate).As an adjective simulated
is made to imitate something else; artificial.simulated
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(head)assimilated
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(head)assimilate
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(assimilat)- Food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue.
- Hence also animals and vegetables may assimilate their nourishment.
- The teacher paused in her lecture to allow the students to assimilate what she had said.
- His mind had no power to assimilate the lessons.
- The aliens in the science-fiction film wanted to assimilate human beings into their own race.
- to assimilate our law to the law of Scotland
- Fast falls a fleecy shower; the downy flakes / Assimilate all objects.