English-Thai Dictionary
dissimilate
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
DISSIMILATE
DISSIMILATE Dis *sim "i *late, v. t.
Defn: To render dissimilar.
New American Oxford Dictionary
dissimilate
dis sim i late |diˈsiməˌlāt dɪˈsɪməleɪt | ▶verb [ with obj. ] Linguistics change (a sound in a word ) in order to be unlike the sounds near it: in “pilgrim, ” from Latin “peregrinus,” the first “r ” is dissimilated to “l.” • [ no obj. ] (of a sound ) undergo such a change: the first “r ” dissimilates to “l.” DERIVATIVES dis sim i la tion |-ˌsiməˈlāSHən |noun, dis sim i la to ry |-ləˌtôrē |adjective ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from dis- (expressing reversal ) + Latin similis ‘like, similar, ’ on the pattern of assimilate .
Oxford Dictionary
dissimilate
dissimilate |dɪˈsɪmɪleɪt | ▶verb [ with obj. ] Linguistics change (a sound or sounds in a word ) to another when the word originally had identical sounds near each other (e.g. in taper, which derives from papyrus, the p is dissimilated to t ). • [ no obj. ] (of a sound ) undergo the process of dissimilation: the first ‘r ’ dissimilates to ‘l ’. DERIVATIVES dissimilation noun, dissimilatory |dɪˈsɪmɪlət (ə )ri |adjective ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from dis- (expressing reversal ) + Latin similis ‘like, similar ’, on the pattern of assimilate .