Assimilate vs. Process — What's the Difference?

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

A series of actions, changes, or functions bringing about a result

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

A series of operations performed in the making or treatment of a product

To incorporate and absorb into the mind

Progress; passage

To make similar; cause to resemble.

The use of the law courts and other fora as a means of seeking redress

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

The set of actions and events that constitute a legal proceeding or a significant portion thereof

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

(Law) A means of compelling a person to appear in court, especially a summons ordering a defendant to appear in court.

To become assimilated.

(Biology) An outgrowth of tissue; a projecting part

(transitive) To incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion.

Any of various photomechanical or photoengraving methods.

(transitive) To incorporate or absorb (knowledge) into the mind.

A running software program or other computing operation.

(transitive) To absorb (a person or people) into a community or culture.

A part of a running software program or other computing operation that does a single task.

To liken, compare to something similar.

See conk3.

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

To put through the steps of a prescribed procedure

(intransitive) To become similar.

To prepare, treat, or convert by subjecting to a special process

(intransitive) To be incorporated or absorbed into something.

(Computers) To perform operations on (data).

Something that is or has been assimilated.

To gain an understanding or acceptance of; come to terms with

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

To straighten (hair) by a chemical process; conk.

To liken; to compa e.

To move along in a procession

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.

Prepared or converted by a special process

To become similar or like something else.

Made by or used in any of several photomechanical or photoengraving processes

To change and appropriate nourishment so as to make it a part of the substance of the assimilating body.

A series of events which produce a result (the product).

To be converted into the substance of the assimilating body; to become incorporated; as, some kinds of food assimilate more readily than others.

(manufacturing) A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical industries.

Take up mentally;

A path of succession of states through which a system passes.

Become similar to one's environment;

(anatomy) Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.

Make similar;

(legal) Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate, or writ.

Take (gas, light or heat) into a solution

(biology) An outgrowth of tissue or cell.

Become similar in sound;

(anatomy) A structure that arises above a surface.

(computing) An executable task or program.

The centre mark that players aim at in the game of squails.

(transitive) To perform a particular process on a thing.

(transitive) To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer techniques.

To think about a piece of information, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it in a modified state.

To develop photographic film.

To take legal proceedings against.

To walk in a procession

The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

A series of actions, motions, or occurrences; progressive act or transaction; continuous operation; normal or actual course or procedure; regular proceeding; as, the process of vegetation or decomposition; a chemical process; processes of nature.

A statement of events; a narrative.

Any marked prominence or projecting part, especially of a bone; anapophysis.

The whole course of proceedings in a cause real or personal, civil or criminal, from the beginning to the end of the suit; strictly, the means used for bringing the defendant into court to answer to the action; - a generic term for writs of the class called judicial.

A particular course of action intended to achieve a result;

A sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states;

(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents;

A writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant

A mental process that you are not directly aware of;

A natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant;

Deal with in a routine way;

Subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition;

Perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information;

Institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against;

Shape, form, or improve a material;

Deliver a warrant or summons to someone;

March in a procession;