assimiler
French → English
(education) Absorb: to fully understand and integrate new information into the mind
Les étudiants doivent assimiler une grande quantité de données avant l'examen final.
(English) Students must absorb a large amount of data before the final exam.
L'enfant a rapidement assimilé les règles du jeu en observant les autres.
(English) The child quickly absorbed the rules of the game by watching the others.
(logic) Equate: to represent or consider two different things as being the same
On ne peut pas assimiler ce simple accident à un acte criminel prémédité.
(English) One cannot equate this simple accident with a premeditated criminal act.
Certains critiques assimilent volontiers la publicité à une forme de manipulation mentale.
(English) Some critics readily equate advertising with a form of mental manipulation.
Entry ID: fr:en:assimiler · Source: refined · Type: vocabulary