Appropriation vs. Assimilation — What's the Difference?

The act of appropriating.

The process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas

Something appropriated, especially public funds set aside for a specific purpose.

The absorption and digestion of food or nutrients by the body or any biological system

A legislative act authorizing the expenditure of a designated amount of public funds for a specific purpose.

The process of becoming similar to something

An act or instance of appropriating.

The act or process of assimilating.

That which is appropriated.

The state of being assimilated.

Public funds set aside for a specific purpose.

(Physiology) The conversion of nutriments into living tissue; constructive metabolism.

(arts) The use of borrowed elements in the creation of a new work.

(Linguistics) The process by which a sound is modified so that it becomes similar or identical to an adjacent or nearby sound. For example, the prefix in- becomes im- in impossible by assimilation to the labial p of possible.

(sociology) The assimilation of concepts into a governing framework.

The process whereby a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture.

In church law, the making over of a benefice to an owner who receives the tithes, but is bound to appoint a vicar for the spiritual service of the parish.

The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.

The principle that supplies granted by a legislature are only to be expended in the manner specified by that legislature.

The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.

The act of setting apart or assigning to a particular use or person, or of taking to one's self, in exclusion of all others; application to a special use or purpose, as of a piece of ground for a park, or of money to carry out some object.

(by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.

Anything, especially money, thus set apart.

(phonology) A sound change process by which the phonetics of a speech segment becomes more like that of another segment in a word (or at a word boundary), so that a change of phoneme occurs.

The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone.

The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.

Money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose

The act or process of assimilating or bringing to a resemblance, likeness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another.

Incorporation by joining or uniting

The conversion of nutriment into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption, whether in plants or animals.

A deliberate act of acquisition

The state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family

The social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another

The process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion

A linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound

The process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure

In the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance