assimilate

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There are certainly books on this list that provide >10x the value, but take >10x the effort to assimilate.

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Quick take

take up mentally; "he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe"

Meaning at a glance

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verb

take up mentally; "he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe"

verb

become similar to one's environment; "Immigrants often want to assimilate quickly"

verb

make similar; "This country assimilates immigrants very quickly"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for assimilate.

verb

take up mentally; "he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe"

verb

become similar to one's environment; "Immigrants often want to assimilate quickly"

verb

make similar; "This country assimilates immigrants very quickly"

verb

take (gas, light or heat) into a solution

verb

become similar in sound; "The nasal assimilates to the following consonant"

Example sentences

There are certainly books on this list that provide >10x the value, but take >10x the effort to assimilate.

This is something you come to assimilate as you get older -- unless you are very wise, very young.

If an European wants to assimilate SV culture, by all means let him/her go to damn Silicon Valley.

Whatever is getting popular on the web, some little Googlite is busy working to assimilate it.

What would it to do in terms of our desire to assimilate these immigrants?Your idea is fun to think about, but IMO it's not realistic.

In the Passover story, one of the things we note is that even living in Egypt for a long time, they didn't assimilate and they were disliked for it.

Slowly I began to formulate what I still consider the fundamental fact about learning: Anything is easy if you can assimilate it to your collection of models.

"A" developers knock down learning curves and assimilate everything about software creation innately.

I don't know, this line of thinking reminds me of Daniel Quinn's Ishmael, where the author argues that perhaps our way of life is only special because it's aggressive, in that we annihilate or assimilate other cultures and cannot live alongside them.

I can assure you, I didn't use the term casually.> many muslim immigrants refuse to assimilate to the point of wanting to be governed by separate sets of lawsThat's a tiny minority of the UK's immigrant community.

We see a lot of immigrants who refuse to assimilate, and we believe that it's detrimental both for them, because it makes it harder for them to take advantage of all of the opportunities of American society, and detrimental to the people who live around them, because there presence creates cultural schisms within communities that cannot be reconciled.

There can of course be incredibly abstract knowledge base designs and the computation can assimilate incredibly complex knowledge from those, however it is almost a logical fallacy to suggest that we would ever lose control of something autonomous due to some sort of "rogue agent".Of course, there are very real risks with something like AI, but it's much less sinister than what the article suggests.