In her fear she becomes reliant on a young deaf boy called Easter, and slowly assimilates into the tribe.
It welcomes and assimilates all new arrivals.
E. chlorotica also assimilates the genes of V. litorea into its genetic structure; however, those genes do not appear to be active in the animal.
Third is command itself or command and control (C2) in modern parlance which assimilates the information, decides which actions are called for, and directs forces to act accordingly.
The scheme of the new code thus assimilates the U.S. law of winding up decedents' estates into those of England and of the civil-law countries, where the simple estate is treated as the normal, where no executor is needed unless he is expressly provided for in the testament, and where judicial administration is limited to cases of exceptional risk or complexity.
When a syllable that ends in a stop is followed by one that begins with a nasal, the stop assimilates: chip 'house' + -man 'only' sounds just like chim 'burden' + -man [čimman], and kung-min can mean either 'the people of the nation' (when the first syllable is kuk- 'nation') or 'the poor people' (when the first syllable is kung- 'poor').
Accordingly, some linguists posit that a creole may remain as such or decreolize (i.e., lose its creole features) as it assimilates to its lexifier (the language from which it inherited most of its vocabulary) if both are spoken in the same polity.
Most magma formed by partial melting of the mantle is basaltic in composition, but, as it ascends, it assimilates silica, sodium, and potassium from the surrounding host rocks.
In "George Condo: Mental States," at the New Museum, the painter assimilates the styles of masters from Velázquez to Picasso, but his work is no cynical art-historical critique — his themes are violence and sex, tragedy and farce.
In that America, there was no room for the kind of Jewish characters and actors who had appeared in the silent and early-sound-period movies — the ghetto dwellers, the Yiddish dialogue comics, the Jewish boy in the first sound film (from 1927), "The Jazz Singer," who turns his back on the Lower East Side and assimilates into American society.
Harold Bloom, in "The Western Canon," described the culture's seminal books as possessing "strangeness, a mode of originality that either cannot be assimilated, or that so assimilates us that we cease to see it as strange".
