(v. t.) To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.
(v. t.) To liken; to compa/e.
(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.
(v. i.) To become similar or like something else.
(v. i.) To change and appropriate nourishment so as to make it a part of the substance of the assimilating body.
(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Essential parameters of hepatic functioning in 84 labourers, whose exposition to benzene is differing in assimilation as well as length of time is discussed.--45 persons from the same county without contact to benzene or hepatotoxic agents served as control-group.
(2) These results emphasize the potential importance of LPL-mediated lipid assimilation in the metabolic events that lead to energy production in response to environmental stresses and lend support to the notion that the regulation of LPL activity is tissue specific.
(3) The 13CO2 starch breath test is an attractive test for the study of factors affecting carbohydrate assimilation.
(4) In the animals the assimilation of the administered thiamin constituted 17,5-20% as compared with healthy animals; this phenomenon was accompanied by an increased urinary excretion of the vitamin.
(5) Results of these tests suggest that assimilation of protocatechuate and p-hydroxybenzoate may be a useful characteristic, when used in conjunction with traditional tests, for identifying C. parapsilosis and C. albidus.
(6) For each of the 3 major age groups (young, intermediate, and older), the paper describes general characteristics for children's though processes, ways in which children assimilate information about various aspects of AIDs, and implications for educating children about causes, prevention, and fear of AIDS.
(7) A gene (FRE1) was identified which encodes a protein required for both ferric iron reduction and efficient ferric iron assimilation, thus linking these two activities.
(8) Isotopes (153Sm, 186Re, and 166Ho) were assumed to assimilate as surface agents and the dose profiles were calculated on a microscopic scale using the Electron-Gamma Shower (EGS4) computer program.
(9) The dynamics and composition of labeled products formed upon assimilation of 14C-bicarbonate in the presence of unlabeled carbon oxide by the two organisms, the composition of products formed upon assimilation of 14CO by suspensions of S. carboxydohydrogena Z-1062 during 5 minutes, and the dynamics and composition of labeled assimilates of A. carboxydus Z-1171 after incubation in the presence of 14CO, were found to be consistent with those expected in the action of the reductive pentose phosphate Calvin cycle.
(10) The amino-oligopeptidase of the intestinal brush border possesses high specificity for oligopeptides having bulky side chains and is a candidate for a crucial role in the overall assimilation of dietary protein.
(11) Photosynthetic carbon assimilation and associated CO(2)-dependent O(2) evolution by chloroplasts isolated from pea shoots and spinach leaves is almost completely inhibited by 10mm-dl-glyceraldehyde.
(12) "They are over-assimilating to a culture that some men are now saying they don't want."
(13) NADH-GDH and AIDH are induced by ammonia, and it is suggested that these enzymes are involved in primary nitrogen assimilation.
(14) Close contacts of the yeast cells with the hydrocarbon being assimilated is important; assimilation may start in a close vicinity of the cell walls.
(15) The results suggest that the assimilation of amino acids by growing fungal cells was quantitatively comparable with their dissimilation to metabolites.
(16) This gene cluster is required for the assimilation of nitrate in A. nidulans, and the three genes encode a product required for nitrate uptake and the enzymes, nitrite reductase and nitrate reductase, respectively.
(17) The 21 biochemical and assimilation tests on the Rapid NFT test strips were treated according to the manufacturer's protocol, which included use of AUX medium (provided with the Rapid NFT system) for preparing assimilation tests, and by substituting phenol red broth base (BBL Microbiology Systems, Cockeysville, Md.)
(18) Previous studies indicate that schizophrenic thought processes show a disturbance in the balance between assimilation and accommodation, as Piaget uses these terms.
(19) Assimilation of kerosene and hexadecane was optimal at pH 2 and was stimulated by yeast extract.
(20) nit-4 is a pathway-specific regulatory gene which controls nitrate assimilation in Neurospora crassa, and appears to mediate nitrate induction of nitrate and nitrite reductase.
Collate
Definition:
(v. t.) To compare critically, as books or manuscripts, in order to note the points of agreement or disagreement.
(v. t.) To gather and place in order, as the sheets of a book for binding.
(v. t.) To present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; -- followed by to.
(v. t.) To bestow or confer.
(v. i.) To place in a benefice, when the person placing is both the patron and the ordinary.
Example Sentences:
(1) By collating the results of those tests with the results of tests on previously collected samples, we have been able to discuss and observe age and sex susceptibilities and the mode of transmission of the naturally occurring disease.
(2) • The International Medical Corps is recruiting qualified healthcare practitioners, water, sanitation and environmental experts, psychosocial staff and logistics, human resources and finance professionals to work in Ebola treatment units in Sierra Leone and Liberia How to donate to aid agencies and organisations tackling Ebola USAid has collated a list of NGOs responding to Ebola .
(3) Subjects' responses were directly collated with those of their friends and indicated a clear covariation of smoking status (controlling for sex and age) as anticipated from previous research in which adolescents have been asked to report on the smoking habits of their friends.
(4) The review also draws on data on maternal deaths, collated on a triennial basis and published by the National Health and Medical Research Council.
(5) The Hunt file: doctors' dossier of patients 'put at risk' by health secretary Read more Hunt is under fire from doctors in a campaign that collates examples of such patients to illustrate what they call “the Hunt effect”.
(6) According to data from the Labour government's 2005 Count Me In census, which for the first time collated statistics on ethnic minorities in mental health services, black men and mixed race men are three or more times more likely than the general population to be admitted to a psychiatric unit.
(7) We have collated phenotypic and genotypic data on 1622 members of 128 families with tuberous sclerosis in order to evaluate simultaneously the evidence for these putative loci.
(8) scores are markedly lower than the passenger satisfaction results collated by the watchdog Passenger Focus from a far bigger sample.
(9) Scientists from Global Forest Watch collated 400,000 images of the Earth’s surface to map the world’s forests down to a resolution of 30 metres.
(10) The paper analyzes a province-wide database that collates statistical data from all inpatient and outpatient psychiatric services as well as from private physicians.
(11) This review collates the dietary, toxicological, immunological and chemical data available and presents the pre-requisite data concerning the 'Need' and low levels of utilization of GT.
(12) Labor knows from experience that inevitably some of their own side will also have erred, and that Coalition researchers will be, as we speak, collating any evidence of such cases.
(13) The responses were collated and compared by sex, age, size of burn, and evaluator (patient, parent, or physician).
(14) Responsibilities of the coordinating center have changed from a conventional coordinating center but remain substantial due to the need for collating, monitoring, verifying, and documenting the distributed data analysis (DDA) system.
(15) The authors believe that a collation of the tabulated data with the known mathematical models makes it possible to come to understanding some aspects of the pathogenesis of endogenic psychoses.
(16) Data from several studies on urinary nicotine concentrations and those of cotinine in blood, urine and saliva were collated.
(17) It emerged during the month-long trial that he had a collection of images of girls being abused and had collated pictures of April and her sisters from Facebook.
(18) The Knowledge Bank has collated open access information from all over the world, and also includes in-house data that Cabi has made freely available for the first time.
(19) Reports of single base-pair mutations within gene coding regions causing human genetic disease were collated.
(20) When our results are collated and correlated with new somatosensory cortical maps arrived at by microelectrode techniques (Pubols et al.