Assimilate :: Assimilate (v. t.) 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..
Assimilate :: Assimilate (v. i.) To become similar or like something else.
Assimilate :: Assimilate (v. i.) To change and appropriate nourishment so as to make it a part of the substance of the assimilating body.
Assimilate :: Assimilate (v. i.) To be converted into the substance of the assimilating body; to become incorporated; as, some kinds of food assimilate more readily than others..
Assimilation :: Assimilation (n.) 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..
Assimilation :: Assimilation (n.) 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..
Assimilative :: Assimilative (a.) Tending to, or characterized by, assimilation; that assimilates or causes assimilation; as, an assimilative process or substance..
Assimilatory :: Assimilatory (a.) Tending to assimilate, or produce assimilation; as, assimilatory organs..
Demilance :: Demilance (n.) A light lance; a short spear; a half pike; also, a demilancer..
Demilancer :: Demilancer (n.) A soldier of light cavalry of the 16th century, who carried a demilance..
Disassimilate :: Disassimilate (v. t.) To subject to disassimilation.
Disassimilation :: Disassimilation (n.) The decomposition of complex substances, within the organism, into simpler ones suitable only for excretion, with evolution of energy, -- a normal nutritional process the reverse of assimilation; downward metabolism..
Disassimilative :: Disassimilative (a.) Having power to disassimilate; of the nature of disassimilation.
Dissimilar :: Dissimilar (a.) Not similar; unlike; heterogeneous; as, the tempers of men are as dissimilar as their features..
Dissimilarity :: Dissimilarity (n.) Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilitude; variety; as, the dissimilarity of human faces and forms..
Dissimilarly :: Dissimilarly (adv.) In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style.