assimilation
Collocations
5ADJ.
cultural, due, soviet, under, western, yiddish
VERB + ASSIMILATION
desert, don't, resisted, want
ASSIMILATION + NOUN
culture, goy, nations
PREP.
between, into, with
ADV.
really
Definitions
noun
The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
--France swarms with Gracchus's and Publicolas, who by imaginary assimilations of acts, which a change of manners has rendered different, fancy themselves more than equal to their prototypes.
His work generally is full of assimilations and quotations from art that is not Mexican, and he's said, "Nationalism has nothing to do with my work.
The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
We have great need to be careful in these assimilations; some kinds of food are rich but not easily digested.
The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
A sound change process by which the phonetics of a speech segment becomes more like that of another segment in a word (or at a word boundary), so that a change of phoneme occurs.
Hence, rather than being the result of mishearing and assimilation, the application of Hobson-Jobson to the Muharram was intentionally disparaging.
The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.
After centuries of British cultural assimilation, a majority of Irish now speak English instead of Irish.
Assimilation was one of the words they used for Indians becoming white in order to survive, in order that they might not be killed for being Indians.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cogni
noun — the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after diges
noun — the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harm
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
6--France swarms with Gracchus's and Publicolas, who by imaginary assimilations of acts, which a change of manners has rendered different, fancy themselves more than equal to their prototypes.
WiktionaryHis work generally is full of assimilations and quotations from art that is not Mexican, and he's said, "Nationalism has nothing to do with my work.
WiktionaryWe have great need to be careful in these assimilations; some kinds of food are rich but not easily digested.
WiktionaryMountain and desert Berbers resisted assimilation.
Tatoeba · #8146789Algerians don't want cultural assimilation with Western nations.
Tatoeba · #10109911Instead of choosing between tolerance and assimilation, what we really need are respect and acceptance of differences.
Tatoeba · #10114716