assimilate vs link

assimilate

verb
  • To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between. 

  • To incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion. 

  • To incorporate or absorb (knowledge) into the mind. 

  • To liken, compare to something similar. 

  • To become similar. 

  • To absorb (a person or people) into a community or culture. 

  • To be incorporated or absorbed into something. 

noun
  • Something that is or has been assimilated. 

link

verb
  • To demonstrate a correlation between two things. 

  • To meet with someone. 

  • To contain a hyperlink to another page. 

  • To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link. 

  • To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable. 

  • To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly. 

  • To connect two or more things. 

  • To post a hyperlink to. 

noun
  • One element of a chain or other connected series. 

  • Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, such as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained. 

  • The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream. 

  • The connection between buses or systems. 

  • a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills. 

  • A space comprising one or more disjoint knots. 

  • A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction. 

  • An introductory cue. 

  • Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (in steam engines) the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion. 

  • The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length. 

  • Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain. 

  • A sausage that is not a patty. 

  • A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas. 

  • an individual person or element in a system 

How often have the words assimilate and link occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )