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Assimilate vs. Adapt — What's the Difference?

Assimilate vs. Adapt — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Assimilate and Adapt

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Assimilate

To consume and incorporate (nutrients) into the body after digestion.

Adapt

To make suitable to or fit for a specific use or situation
Adapted the novel into a movie.
Adapted the company policy to take internet use into account.

Assimilate

To transform (food) into living tissue by the process of anabolism; metabolize constructively.

Adapt

To cause to be able to survive and reproduce under certain conditions. Used in the passive
“Every species is adapted to a rather restricted selection of properties of the environment” (Ernst Mayr).

Assimilate

To incorporate and absorb into the mind
Assimilate knowledge.
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Adapt

To change in order to meet the requirements of new circumstances or conditions
The music business had to adapt to digital technology.

Assimilate

To make similar; cause to resemble.

Adapt

To become able to survive and reproduce under certain conditions
Hawks have adapted to living in cities.

Assimilate

(Linguistics) To alter (a sound) by assimilation.

Adapt

(transitive) To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit

Assimilate

To absorb (immigrants or a culturally distinct group) into the prevailing culture.

Adapt

(transitive) To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust
To adapt a story for the stage
To adapt an old machine to a new manufacture

Assimilate

To become assimilated.

Adapt

(transitive) To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character
To bring out a play adapted from the French
A word of an adapted form

Assimilate

(transitive) To incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion.
Food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue.

Adapt

(intransitive) To make oneself comfortable to a new thing.
They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.

Assimilate

(transitive) To incorporate or absorb (knowledge) into the mind.
The teacher paused in her lecture to allow the students to assimilate what she had said.

Adapt

Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.

Assimilate

(transitive) To absorb (a person or people) into a community or culture.
The aliens in the science-fiction film wanted to assimilate human beings into their own race.

Adapt

Fitted; suited.

Assimilate

To liken, compare to something similar.

Adapt

To make suitable; to fit, or suit; to adjust; to alter so as to fit for a new use; - sometimes followed by to or for.
For nature, always in the right,To your decays adapts my sight.
Appeals adapted to his [man's] whole nature.
Streets ill adapted for the residence of wealthy persons.

Assimilate

(transitive) To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.

Adapt

Make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose;
Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country

Assimilate

(intransitive) To become similar.

Adapt

Adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions;
We must adjust to the bad economic situation

Assimilate

(intransitive) To be incorporated or absorbed into something.

Assimilate

Something that is or has been assimilated.

Assimilate

To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.
To assimilate our law to the law of Scotland.
Fast falls a fleecy; the downy flakesAssimilate all objects.

Assimilate

To liken; to compa e.

Assimilate

To appropriate and transform or incorporate into the substance of the assimilating body; to absorb or appropriate, as nourishment; as, food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue.
Hence also animals and vegetables may assimilate their nourishment.
His mind had no power to assimilate the lessons.

Assimilate

To become similar or like something else.

Assimilate

To change and appropriate nourishment so as to make it a part of the substance of the assimilating body.
Aliment easily assimilated or turned into blood.

Assimilate

To be converted into the substance of the assimilating body; to become incorporated; as, some kinds of food assimilate more readily than others.
I am a foreign material, and cannot assimilate with the church of England.

Assimilate

Take up mentally;
He absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe

Assimilate

Become similar to one's environment;
Immigrants often want to assimilate quickly

Assimilate

Make similar;
This country assimilates immigrants very quickly

Assimilate

Take (gas, light or heat) into a solution

Assimilate

Become similar in sound;
The nasal assimialates to the following consonant

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