assimilatory

Examples

• All

• The assimilatory ability of certain algae helps them thrive in various aquatic environments.

• The assimilatory attraction of neighboring majority cultures seems to pose a much more real danger to these and other similar cultures.

  Academic text (1999)

• This assimilatory depoliticization of race/ethnic relations is reinforced by other subplots in Salsa.

  Academic text (1996)

• Kymlicka fails to show that there is any important connection between protecting individual freedom and preserving the distinctiveness of minority cultures against assimilatory pressures.

  Academic text (1999)

• That the latter is celebrated as the true melting pot, in the assimilatory sense, is but a final ironic twist in the study of comparative historiographies.

  Academic text (1994)

• It was suggested in this paper that the attempt to overlook national yearnings by reducing them to a demand for civic freedoms aids and abets assimilatory policies.

  Academic text (1991)

• An assimilatory schema becomes anticipatory in relation to the comparisons that lie in the future when it has undergone a sufficient degree of remoulding and readaptation in the light of hindsight...

  Academic text (1995)

• In a recent book, Alejandro Portes and Rubén Rumbaut maintain that three factors create the negative assimilatory paths toward interrupted education, poor jobs, broken families, crime, and delinquency:

  Academic text (2002)

• In 1963, Glazer and Daniel P. Moynihan based their provocative analysis of New York City's ethnic dynamism (Beyond the Melting Pot) on the belief that "the powerful assimilatory influences of American society operate on all who come into it."

  Academic text (1995)

• The plant's assimilatory process involves taking in carbon dioxide and sunlight to create food.

Synonyms

A

absorbent

vsassimilatory

10 3.4

Able to soak up liquid easily

emphasizes incorporation into a solution or process rather than merely holding material

A

absorptive

vsassimilatory

1 6.8

Able to take in liquids or energy, like a sponge

focuses on becoming part of a solution or ongoing process rather than just uptake

A

assimilable

vsassimilatory

• Specialized

1 8.1

A substance the body can absorb and use

is broader, applying to incorporation into solutions or processes beyond body tissues

A

assimilative

vsassimilatory

7.9

That can take in light, gas or liquid

has identical meaning but differs only in its alternative adjectival form

R

resorptive

vsassimilatory

• Specialized

9.2

Able to absorb or break down material in body tissues

stresses incorporation into solutions or processes beyond local tissue dissolution

How Assimilative

absorptive

1 6.8

assimilatory

• Specialized

9.9

resistant

61 4.2

impermeable

4 6.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology