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Meaning of assimilate

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  assimilate
      v 1: take up mentally; "he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of
           his tribe" [syn: {absorb}, {assimilate}, {ingest}, {take
           in}]
      2: become similar to one's environment; "Immigrants often want
         to assimilate quickly" [ant: {dissimilate}]
      3: make similar; "This country assimilates immigrants very
         quickly" [ant: {dissimilate}]
      4: take (gas, light or heat) into a solution [syn: {assimilate},
         {imbibe}]
      5: become similar in sound; "The nasal assimilates to the
         following consonant" [ant: {dissimilate}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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