Assimilates

Word ASSIMILATES
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What do we mean by assimilates?

To incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion.

To incorporate or absorb (knowledge) into the mind.

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

To compare to something similar.

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

To become similar.

To be incorporated or absorbed into something.

Absorption of a minority group within a larger population; distinct from integration in that it implies a loss of cultural identity and ultimately of individuality. Usually relates to the pressure on immigrants to conform to the expectations of the mass culture in their new country. More recently applied to the aggressive subjugation of races by the Borg, and hence to a person joining a large faceless group of stupid people. Urban Dictionary

1. To gather ideas in order to understand a subject. 2. To tie a subject to a multitude of other ideas and references. Urban Dictionary

(1)The act of being assimilated; usually by the Borg. Or, (2)the absorbtion of a foreign body into a living being. Urban Dictionary

It is what the United State's government did to the indigenous tribes in order to cast out the inner "native" from them. Involved sending the children to the state-run boarding schools in order to destroy their "savage" culture. In many cases, assimilation was the solution for the government to obtain land, stripping the indigenous of precious resources. Urban Dictionary

The USA. Urban Dictionary

Assimilation isn't living together as friends, it never was. Urban Dictionary

What the Borg does in startrek, destroying difference among people in order to make the perfect society. What Jews had to do in antisemitic Europe in the 19th century. What every minority is expected to do. Urban Dictionary

Absorption of a minority group within a larger population. Urban Dictionary

To get converted to a different band while high. Urban Dictionary

To fit in with the Americans around you or go the fuck back where you came from. Urban Dictionary

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The word "assimilates" in example sentences

The marginal culture assimilates, which is not, by definition, bad. ❋ Hal Duncan (2006)

I don't just mean that New York "assimilates" immigrants, so that Punjabi limo drivers practice saying "fuggeddaboutit" within a few weeks of first negotiating our potholes. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It seems, though very little is known on the subject, that what "assimilates" itself directly, and with the least trouble of digestion with the human body, is the best for the above circumstances. ❋ Unknown (1860)

His art assimilates his personal experiences of place with the larger understanding of African-American social, cultural and political history, and which manifests in his most accomplished work as urban cityscapes and rural landscapes with acute views of African-American workers, street life, and homelife. ❋ G. Roger Denson (2011)

In a capitalist artworld that assimilates even the most politically revolutionary art that shows signs of being convertible to a high-yielding commodity, today's political iconoclasts can become tomorrow's blue chip investments. ❋ G. Roger Denson (2011)

In the first place we should insist that the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equity with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace or origin. ❋ Unknown (2010)

 His art assimilates his personal experiences of place with the larger understanding of African-American social, cultural and political history, and which manifests in his most accomplished work as urban cityscapes and rural landscapes with acute views of African-American workers, street life, and homelife. ❋ G. Roger Denson (2011)

The expansive story sounds more like the lives of ten men, as Jack gets adopted by Cheyenne Indians, then assimilates to white, and finally goes back and forth between the two races, while encountering Western characters Wild Bill Hickok and of course, General Custer himself. ❋ John Farr (2010)

In a weird duplication of manifest destiny, the white folks (plus assimilates without a culture of their own) are now going to educate, civilize, interbreed with, and take control of the indigenes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Our needs for protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals have not changed much over the last centuries; the way the human body assimilates food hasn't changed much either. ❋ Christina Pirello (2011)

It is culture that embraces diversity, assimilates diversity, and yet maintains the integrity of the whole. ❋ Robert David Steele (2010)

Knowledge assimilates an object to a subject by preserving the object. ❋ M_francis (2009)

Maryam never assimilates into British culture, despite having lived there for decades. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Not just a first novel but a cultural eventa wedding of secular and religious forms of literatureIn the Image neither lives in the past nor seeks to escape it, but rather assimilates it, in the best sense of the word, honoring what is lost and finding, among the lost things, the treasures that can renew the present. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Of the book, critics write of how well the protagonist assimilates the mind of a pig. ❋ Sam Rasnake (2011)

Eating assimilates an object to a subject by destroying the object. ❋ M_francis (2009)

"[Bad news]; she bought the [Avril] [album]. Her assimilation is complete." ❋ Shoggoth (2003)

I showed a kid [a cup] and a picture of [two girls] playing. And he began to [assimilate]. ❋ Sp00per (2018)

(1) This is [the Borg]. [You will be assimilated]. We will add your biological and technological distinctions to our own. You will adapt to service us. [Resistance is futile]. or (2) I assimilated that bullet you shot me in the leg with. ❋ Paragon (2005)

The United States forced [assimilation] upon [Native Americans] in means of "killing [the indian], but saving the man." ❋ EARTH&WATER (2010)

❋ Anonymous (2003)

1) The guy/girl trying to [assimilate] [you was] never your friend. You're [divided] from him/her for a good reason. 2) The guy didnt assimilate to people not from his neighborhood, it was his neighborhood, not theirs. ❋ Solid Mantis (2020)

”We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will [adapt] to service us. [Resistance is futile]. [You will be assimilated]." ❋ Bananaquiet (2019)

There was an [assimilation] when the [whites] started to follow [the blacks]. ❋ GPA4.5 (2007)

[Darn] it, i got [assimilation] to [regga]. ❋ Kuehlstein (2018)

Nick to [cab driver]: "You just passed [the turn] you idiot.. you need to [assimilate]. I am not paying you an extra dollar. Here is $25. ❋ Golden Frog (2009)

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