| assimilate |
absorb: take up mentally; "he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe" become similar to one's environment; "Immigrants often want to assimilate quickly" make similar; "This country assimilates immigrants very quickly" take (gas, light or heat) into a solution become similar in sound; "The nasal assimilates to the following consonant"
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| assimilation |
the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound acculturation: the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure in the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance
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| aspartame |
an artificial sweetener made from aspartic acid; used as a calorie-free sweetener
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| Asarum |
wild ginger
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| Asparagus |
plant whose succulent young shoots are cooked and eaten as a vegetable edible young shoots of the asparagus plant
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