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assimilation

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CIDE DICTIONARY

assimilationn. [L. assimilatio: cf. F. assimilation.].
  •  The act or process of assimilating or bringing to a resemblance, likeness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another.  [1913 Webster]
    "To aspire to an assimilation with God."  [1913 Webster]
    "The assimilation of gases and vapors."  [1913 Webster]
  •  The conversion of nutriment into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption, whether in plants or animals.  [1913 Webster]
    " The term assimilation has been limited by some to the final process by which the nutritive matter of the blood is converted into the substance of the tissues and organs."  [1913 Webster]
    "Not conversing the body, not repairing it by assimilation, but preserving it by ventilation."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

assimilation

Americanization, Anschluss, ablation, about-face, absorbency, absorbent, absorption, accommodation, accordance, acculturation, adaptation, addition, adjustment, admissibility, admission, adoption, adsorbent, adsorption, affiliation, agglomeration, aggregation, agreement, alchemy, alikeness, alliance, allophone, alveolar, amalgamation, analogy, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, aping, apperception, approach, approximation, articulation, aspiration, assimilation, association, assumption, attrition, attunement, awareness, basal metabolism, becoming, bilabial, bile, blend, blending, blotter, blotting, blotting paper, burning up, cabal, cacuminal, cartel, catabolism, centralization, cerebral, change, change-over, check, chemisorption, chemosorption, citizenship by naturalization, citizenship papers, closeness, coalescence, coalition, coaptation, combination, combine, combo, community, comparability, comparison, completeness, composition, comprehension, comprehensiveness, comprisal, confederacy, confederation, conformity, congeries, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, consciousness, consolidation, consonant, conspiracy, consumption, continuant, conversion, coordination, copying, correspondence, coverage, culture shock, dental, depletion, digestion, digestive system, diphthong, dissimilation, drain, eating up, ecumenism, eligibility, embodiment, embracement, encompassment, endosmosis, engrossment, enosis, envisagement, epenthetic vowel, erosion, exhaustion, exhaustiveness, exosmosis, expending, expenditure, explosive, federalization, federation, finishing, flip-flop, fusion, gastric juice, gastrointestinal tract, glide, glottal, glottalization, growth, guttural, harmonization, hookup, identification, identity, imbibing, imitation, impoverishment, inclusion, inclusiveness, incorporation, infiltration, ingestion, integration, intestinal juice, junction, junta, labial, labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, lapse, laryngeal, lateral, league, likeness, likening, lingual, liquid, liver, manner of articulation, marriage, meld, melding, membership, merger, metabolism, metaphor, mimicking, mindfulness, modification, monophthong, morphophoneme, mute, nasal, nationalization, naturalization, naturalized citizenship, nearness, occlusive, openness, osmosis, package, package deal, palatal, pancreas, pancreatic digestion, pancreatic juice, papers, parallelism, parasitic vowel, parity, participation, passage, peak, percolation, pharyngeal, pharyngealization, phone, phoneme, plosive, predigestion, progress, prothetic vowel, re-formation, reception, reconcilement, reconciliation, reconversion, reduction, regulation, resemblance, resolution, retroflex, reversal, saliva, salivary digestion, salivary glands, sameness, secondary digestion, seepage, segmental phoneme, semblance, semivowel, shift, similarity, simile, similitude, simulation, soaking-up, solidification, sonant, sonority, sorption, speech sound, spending, sponge, sponging, squandering, squaring, stop, surd, switch, switch-over, syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable, synchronization, syncretism, syndication, syneresis, synthesis, taking-in, tie-up, timing, tolerance, toleration, transformation, transit, transition, transition sound, triphthong, turning into, unification, union, using up, velar, vocable, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced sound, voiceless sound, voicing, volte-face, vowel, wastage, waste, wastefulness, wasting away, wearing away, wearing down, wedding, whole

ROGET THESAURUS

assimilation

Imitation

N imitation, copying, transcription, repetition, duplication, reduplication, quotation, reproduction, mimeograph, xerox, facsimile, reprint, offprint, mockery, mimicry, simulation, impersonation, personation, representation, semblance, copy, assimilation, paraphrase, parody, take-off, lampoon, caricature, plagiarism, forgery, counterfeit, celluloid, imitator, echo, cuckoo, parrot, ape, monkey, mocking bird, mime, copyist, copycat, plagiarist, pirate, imitated, mock, mimic, modelled after, molded on, paraphrastic, literal, imitative, secondhand, imitable, aping, apish, mimicking, literally, to the letter, verbatim, literatim, sic, totidem verbis, word for word, mot a mot, exactly, precisely, like master like man, like - but oh! how different!, genius borrows nobly, pursuing echoes calling 'mong the rocks, quotation confesses inferiority, Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Agreement

N agreement, accord, accordance, unison, harmony, concord, concordance, concert, understanding, mutual understanding, conformity, conformance, uniformity, consonance, consentaneousness, consistency, congruity, congruence, keeping, congeniality, correspondence, parallelism, apposition, union, fitness, aptness, relevancy, pertinence, pertinencey, sortance, case in point, aptitude, coaptation, propriety, applicability, admissibility, commensurability, compatibility, cognation, adaption, adjustment, graduation, accommodation, reconciliation, reconcilement, assimilation, consent, concurrence, cooperation, right man in the right place, very thing, quite the thing, just the thing, agreeing, suiting, in accord, accordant, concordant, consonant, congruous, consentaneous, correspondent, congenial, coherent, becoming, harmonious reconcilable, conformable, in accordance with, in harmony with, in keeping with, in unison with at one with, of one mind, of a piece, consistent, compatible, proportionate, commensurate, on all fours, apt, apposite, pertinent, pat, to the point, to the purpose, happy, felicitous, germane, ad rem, in point, on point, directly on point, bearing upon, applicable, relevant, admissible, fit adapted, in loco, a propos, appropriate, seasonable, sortable, suitable, idoneous, deft, meet, at home, in one's proper element, a propos of, pertinently, rem acu tetigisti, if the shoe fits, wear it, the cap fits, auxilia humilia firma consensus facit, discers concordia.

Conversion

N conversion, reduction, transmutation, resolution, assimilation, evolution, sea change, change of state, assumption, naturalization, transportation, development, developing, conversion of currency, exchange of currency, exchange rate, bureau de change, chemistry, alchemy, progress, growth, lapse, flux, passage, transit, transition, transmigration, shifting, phase, conjugation, convertibility, crucible, alembic, caldron, retort, convert, pervert, renegade, apostate, converted into, convertible, resolvable into, transitional, naturalized, gradually, &c (slowly) 275 in transitu.

Production

N production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture, building, architecture, erection, edification, coinage, diaster, organization, nisus formativus, putting together, establishment, workmanship, performance, achievement, flowering, fructification, inflorescence, bringing forth, parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics, geniture, gestation, assimilation, evolution, development, growth, entelechy, fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation, fecundation, impregnation, albumen, spontaneous generation, archegenesis, archebiosis, biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis, authorship, publication, works, opus, oeuvre, biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny, tocogony, vacuolization, edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit, produced, producing, productive of, prolific, creative, formative, genetic, genial, genital, pregnant, enceinte, big with, fraught with, in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of, puerperal, puerperous, digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic, ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous, architectonic, ex nihilo nihil, fiat lux, materiam superabat opus, nemo dat quod non habet.

Identification

N identification, recognition, diagnosis, match, apperception, assimilation, dereplication, classification, memory, interpretation, cognizance (knowledge).


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