What's the difference between assimilate and harmonize?

Assimilate


Definition:

  • (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.

Harmonize


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To agree in action, adaptation, or effect on the mind; to agree in sense or purport; as, the parts of a mechanism harmonize.
  • (v. i.) To be in peace and friendship, as individuals, families, or public organizations.
  • (v. i.) To agree in vocal or musical effect; to form a concord; as, the tones harmonize perfectly.
  • (v. t.) To adjust in fit proportions; to cause to agree; to show the agreement of; to reconcile the apparent contradiction of.
  • (v. t.) To accompany with harmony; to provide with parts, as an air, or melody.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Complex tones containing the first 20 harmonics of 50, 100, or 200 Hz, all at equal amplitude, were used.
  • (2) Left ventricular asynchrony was quantified by the phase difference of the first Fourier harmonic between postero-basal and antero-apical wall motion.
  • (3) In the case of the pressure time-derivative the significant harmonic content is shifted toward higher frequencies.
  • (4) The discrimination of the fundamental frequency (fo) of pairs of complex tones with no common harmonics is worse than the discrimination of fo for tones with all harmonics in common.
  • (5) The distribution half-life was 6.6 min and the elimination half-life was 39.0 min (harmonic means).
  • (6) When the coupling evolution was followed in the same subject, it did not appear for all locomotor frequencies but only for locomotor periods close to harmonics of respiratory ones (absolute coordination).
  • (7) However, tone phonemes are also comprised of higher harmonics that also may cue tone phonemes.
  • (8) The teeth developing in teratoma are not comparable to the normal process which is harmonized when the formation and the distribution of the various parts are concerned.
  • (9) However, in both LSO and MSO there is an expanded representation of the frequencies around 60 kHz, the main frequency component of the bat's echolocation call; there is another expanded representation of the range around 90 kHz, the third harmonic of the call.
  • (10) The reproducibility and precision of results could be further improved by harmonizing the future distributions of reagents.
  • (11) The three-dimensional spatial distribution of filaments was studied with the aid of small-angle second-harmonic scattering, and the filaments were found to permeate the tendon cross-section in an apparently random fashion.
  • (12) Increased training is required for the professional persons involved, and a broad selection of therapeutic proposals should be offered to all of the families concerned, harmonizing with various instances particularly social and health authorities and the police and legal authorities.
  • (13) Backbone atoms tend to be more nearly harmonic than sidechain atoms.
  • (14) The elimination half-life of each metabolite was short, with harmonic mean values of 1.29, 0.98 and 0.92 hr for PCHP, trans-PPC and cis-PPC, respectively.
  • (15) Of the alternating-current components, only the fundamental is important at high frequencies, the higher harmonics being relatively more attenuated.
  • (16) The harmonic mean half-life was 7.4 hours after both treatments.
  • (17) We propose a second-order harmonic model to describe circadian periodicity in the 24-h cycle of microfilarial counts.
  • (18) However, regulatory variations have largely been removed within politically and geographically similar regions (e.g., the U.S.A., the European Community, the Nordic countries) and there now appears to be a consensus regarding the value of harmonizing international requirements.
  • (19) A number of other characteristic harmonic behaviors were also observed.
  • (20) Both tones were based on a five-component harmonic series.