different between assimilate vs structuralize

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin assimil?tus, variant of Latin assimul?tus (“made similar, imitated”), perfect passive participle of assimul?, from ad + simul? (“imitate, copy”). Doublet of assemble.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /??s?m.?.le?t/

Verb

assimilate (third-person singular simple present assimilates, present participle assimilating, simple past and past participle assimilated)

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

   • Hence also it may be that the parts of animals and vegetables preserve their several forms and assimilate their nourishment

2. (transitive) To incorporate or absorb (knowledge) into the mind.
   • 1850, Charles Merivale, History of the Romans Under the Empire

     His mind had no power to assimilate the lessons.

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

4. (transitive, rare, used with "to" or "with") To liken, compare to something similar.
5. (transitive) To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.
   • March 13, 1866, John Bright, The reform bill on the motion for leave to bring in the bill

     to assimilate our law in respect to the law of Scotland

   • Fast falls a fleecy shower; the downy flakes / Assimilate all objects.

   • 1676, Matthew Hale, Contemplations, Moral and Divine

     it doth , by degrees , assimilate the whole inward Man to this living Principle , and conforms the Life unto it

6. (intransitive) To become similar.
7. (intransitive) To be incorporated or absorbed into something.

Synonyms

• (incorporate or absorb knowledge into the mind): process
• (absorb a group of people into a community): integrate

Translations

Noun

assimilate

1. Something that is or has been assimilated.
   • 2012, A. Läuchli, R.L. Bieleski, Inorganic Plant Nutrition, ?ISBN, page 83

     the growing root and ectomycorrhizas both act as assimilate sinks

Italian

Verb

assimilate

1. second-person plural present of assimilare
2. second-person plural imperative of assimilare

Latin

Verb

assimil?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of assimil?

English

Etymology

structural +? -ize

Verb

structuralize (third-person singular simple present structuralizes, present participle structuralizing, simple past and past participle structuralized)

1. (intransitive) To give structure to; to assimilate into a structural framework.

Synonyms

• formalize
• structure