INTERNALIZE

internalize, internalise, interiorize, interiorise

(verb) incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal; “internalize a belief”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

internalize (third-person singular simple present internalizes, present participle internalizing, simple past and past participle internalized)

(transitive) To make something internal; to incorporate it in oneself.

To process new information in one's mind.

To refrain from expressing (a negative emotion), to one's psychological detriment; to bottle up.

(transitive, programming) To store (a string or other structure) in a shared pool, such that subsequent items with the same value can share the same instance.

Synonym: intern

(finance) To transfer stocks between brokers within an organization, rather than through the exchange.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

10 January 2025

INTERSPERSION

(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”


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Coffee Trivia

Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.

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