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assimilate someone or something into something to cause someone or something to be absorbed into something. (As when a person or thing joins a group.) We sought to assimilate Arnold into the community. The manager had to assimilate the new policies into the list of current ones. They assimilated themselves into the general population. assimilate with some people to join or mix in with people and become accepted by them. It's easy for Karen to assimilate with new people. I want to assimilate rapidly with the other people in my class. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Golub's master in the end, it seems, is neither Dubuffet nor Picabia, but another great assimilator, Picasso--the Picasso of Guernica (a model of painting's public function), but also the Picasso of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (painting as trauma). The controversy over the presumed Americanization of the planet, for example, often glosses over the fact that the United States, which is a big exporter of culture, is at the same time a great importer and assimilator of foreign cultures. The arabinose non-assimilators (Ara-) are virulent and can be isolated from both clinical specimens and the environment, whereas the arabinose assimilators (Ara+) are usually avirulent and mainly found in the environment (9,10). |
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