Assimilate vs Synthesize - What's the difference?
assimilate | synthesize |
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
To combine two or more things to produce a new, more complex product.
(of two or more things) To be combined producing a new, more complex product.
(chemistry) To produce a substance by chemical synthesis.
(intransitive, chemistry, of a substance) To be produced by chemical synthesis.
As verbs the difference between assimilate and synthesize
is that assimilate is to incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion while synthesize is to combine two or more things to produce a new, more complex product.assimilate
English
Verb
(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.