Difference between Absorb and Assimilate

ABSORB vs ASSIMILATE: VERB

To consume and incorporate (nutrients) into the body after digestion.
To transform (food) into living tissue by the process of anabolism; metabolize constructively.
To incorporate and absorb into the mind.
To make similar; cause to resemble.
To alter (a sound) by assimilation.
To become assimilated.
To be converted into the substance of the assimilating body; to become incorporated.
To change and appropriate nourishment so as to make it a part of the substance of the assimilating body.
To become similar or like something else.
To absorb (immigrants or a culturally distinct group) into the prevailing culture.

To swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include.
To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe; as a sponge or as the lacteals of the body.
To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully.
To take up by cohesive, chemical, or any molecular action, as when charcoal absorbs gases. So heat, light, and electricity are absorbed or taken up in the substances into which they pass.
To retain (radiation or sound, for example) wholly, without reflection or transmission.
To use up; consume.
To endure; accommodate.
To assume or pay for (a cost or costs).
To learn; acquire.
To take in; assimilate.
To take up or occupy (one's time or interest, for example).
To occupy the attention, interest, or time of; engross: : engross.
To take (something) in through or as through pores or interstices.
To receive (an impulse) without echo or recoil.

To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.
To liken; to compa�e.
To appropriate and transform or incorporate into the substance of the assimilating body; to absorb or appropriate, as nourishment.

In medicine, to counteract or neutralize: as, magnesia absorbs acidity in the stomach.
To engross or engage wholly.
To swallow up the identity or individuality of; draw in as a constituent part; incorporate: as, the empire absorbed all the small states.
To swallow up; engulf; overwhelm: as, the sea absorbed the wreck.
To drink in; suck up; imbibe, as a sponge; take in by absorption, as the lacteals of the body; hence, to take up or receive in, as by chemical or molecular action, as when charcoal absorbs gases.

To make alike; cause to resemble.
In philology, to render accordant, or less discordant, in sound; bring to or toward agreement in mode of utterance: said of alphabetic sounds as affected by other neighboring sounds, generally (but not always) in the same word. See assimilation, .
To compare; liken; class.
To bring into conformity; adapt.
To conform to; make one's own; adopt.
To become similar; become like something or somebody else; harmonize.
To be taken into and incorporated with another body; be converted into the substance of another body, as food by digestion.
To perform the act of converting anything, as food, into the substance of that which converts it: as, “birds assimilate … less than beasts,”
To convert into a substance suitable for absorption by an animal or vegetable system; absorb and incorporate into the system; incorporate with organic tissues: as, to assimilate food.

Sop up, Take up, Soak up, Plunge, Draw, Steep, Engage, Engross, Occupy, Engulf, Immerse, Imbibe, Ingest, Suck, Assimilate

Swallow, Mainstream, Identify, Accommodate, Grasp, Understand, Learn, Incorporate, Digest, Internalize, Integrate, Take in, Ingest, Imbibe, Absorb

Take over, Suck up, Sop up, Take up, Soak up, Plunge, Draw, Steep, Engross, Occupy, Engulf, Imbibe, Ingest, Suck, Assimilate

Confuse, Attract, Swallow, Mainstream, Identify, Accommodate, Grasp, Understand, Learn, Incorporate, Digest, Internalize, Integrate, Ingest, Imbibe

They are like sponges and will absorb water.
Reaper Scythe to absorb multiple mobs at once.
It is a lot of material to absorb.
There is a ton of material to absorb.
Where is the best place to absorb blood?
First, the gas molecules absorb and scatter radiation, and second, clouds and small particles scatter, absorb, and emit radiation.
Fat and carbohydrates are pretty easy for your body to digest and absorb, but protein takes more energy to digest and absorb.
Important to absorb the number of pooled land back to absorb the policy is too.
It might only take solid wood one minute to absorb the same amount of stain that veneer required two minutes to absorb.
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