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Definition
take in, transform, or fit in
The exact meaning of assimilate can depend upon its context. For example:
- "assimilate to a new country" — fitting into a prevailing culture
- "assimilate the information" — transform information within the mind into understanding
- "assimilate the food" — transform nutrients within the body for its use
- Phaedrus seemed to assimilate them, or be assimilated by them.Part 3 (51% in)
- The only way they could assimilate it was to abandon the entire medieval outlook and enter into a new expansion of reason.Part 2 (84% in)
- He showed a way by which reason may be expanded to include elements that have previously been unassimilable and thus have been considered irrational.Part 3 (49% in)
- I think it's the overwhelming presence of these irrational elements crying for assimilation that creates the present bad quality, the chaotic, disconnected spirit of the twentieth century.Part 3 (49% in)
- Phaedrus seemed to assimilate them, or be assimilated by them.Part 3 (51% in)
- At present we are also snowed under with a lot of stylishness in the arts ... thin art ... because there's very little assimilation or extension into underlying form.Part 3 (76% in)
There are no more uses of "assimilate" in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
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