assimilate
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
take up mentally
he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- assimilation derivation
- acculturation derivation
- learner derivation
- assimilation derivation
Sense 2 verb
become similar to one's environment
Immigrants often want to assimilate quickly
Types & categories
- conform hypernym
- acculturate hyponym
Related & opposite
- dissimilate antonym
- assimilation derivation
- assimilation derivation
Sense 3 verb
make similar
This country assimilates immigrants very quickly
Types & categories
- change hypernym
Related & opposite
- dissimilate antonym
- assimilation derivation
- assimilation derivation
Sense 4 verb
take (gas, light or heat) into a solution
Types & categories
- absorb hypernym
Related & opposite
- assimilation derivation
- imbibition derivation
- assimilating derivation
Sense 5 verb
become similar in sound
The nasal assimilates to the following consonant
Types & categories
- change hypernym
Related & opposite
- dissimilate antonym
- assimilation derivation
- phonetics domain topic
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | assimilation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | acculturation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | learner |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | assimilation |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | learn |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | imbibe |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | dissimilate |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | assimilation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | assimilation |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | conform |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | acculturate |
| 3 | antonym | Related & opposite | dissimilate |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | assimilation |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | assimilation |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | assimilation |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | imbibition |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | assimilating |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | absorb |
| 5 | antonym | Related & opposite | dissimilate |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | assimilation |
| 5 | domain topic | Related & opposite | phonetics |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |