Assimilated

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Assimilate \As*sim"i*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Assimilated};
     p. pr. & vb. n. {Assimilating}.] [L. assimilatus, p. p. of
     assimilare; ad + similare to make like, similis like. See
     {Similar}, {Assemble}, {Assimilate}.]
     1. To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a
        resemblance between. --Sir M. Hale.


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              To assimilate our law to the law of Scotland. --John
                                                    Bright.
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              Fast falls a fleecy; the downy flakes
              Assimilate all objects.               --Cowper.
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     2. To liken; to compa?e. [R.]
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     3. 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.
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              Hence also animals and vegetables may assimilate
              their nourishment.                    --Sir I.
                                                    Newton.
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              His mind had no power to assimilate the lessons.
                                                    --Merivale.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  125 Moby Thesaurus words for "assimilated":
     Americanized, Anglicized, accented, acculturated, acculturized,
     adopted, alveolar, amalgamated, apical, apico-alveolar,
     apico-dental, articulated, back, barytone, bilabial, blended,
     broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, changed, checked, close,
     combinative, combinatory, combined, conjoint, conjugate,
     conjunctive, connective, consolidated, consonant, consonantal,
     continuant, converted, dental, dissimilated, dorsal, eclectic,
     flat, front, fused, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, hard, heavy,
     high, incorporated, indoctrinated, integrated, intonated, joined,
     joint, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax, light,
     lingual, liquid, low, merged, mid, mixed, monophthongal, muted,
     narrow, nasal, nasalized, naturalized, occlusive, one, open,
     oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized,
     phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, posttonic, reborn,
     redeemed, reformed, regenerated, renewed, retroflex, rounded,
     semivowel, soft, sonant, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, syllabic,
     syncretistic, syncretized, synthesized, tense, thick, throaty,
     tonal, tonic, transformed, twangy, unaccented, united, unrounded,
     unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel,
     vowellike, weak, wide