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# assimilate

«assimilate» in Mova's school dictionary: **To take in and understand new information fully** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (assimilate, assimilates, assimilated, assimilating)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To take in and understand new information fully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assimilate/#m1)

2) To become part of a new group or country, taking on its ways (or to make someone do so). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assimilate/#m2)

3) (science) To take in food or nutrients and make them part of the body. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assimilate/#m3)

4) To sort or group things, such as stories, by putting them into a type or class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assimilate/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In history and civics, immigrants assimilate (sometimes by choice, sometimes forced, which is often unfair); in science, plants assimilate carbon; in learning, you assimilate facts. Phrases: «assimilate into», «assimilate information».

### examples

- It takes time to assimilate so many new facts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assimilate/#x1)
- The family assimilated into life in Canada. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assimilate/#x2)
- Plants assimilate carbon dioxide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assimilate/#x3)
- She quickly assimilated the rules of cricket. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assimilate/#x4)
- Forcing people to assimilate can harm their culture. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assimilate/#x5)
- The body assimilates vitamins from food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assimilate/#x6)

### note

Noun: assimilation. Double s. In history, forced assimilation (for example of Indigenous children) is a serious wrong.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «assimilate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assimilate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.