Verb (used without object) : The new arrivals assimilated easily and quickly. From Dictionary.com.
The assimilator is the one who made these insinuations and slanders ", he commented. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Baseball has always prided itself on being the great secular assimilator. From Wordnik.com. [Bad Sports] Reference
Baseball has taken an awkward step from great assimilator to great divider. From Wordnik.com. [Bad Sports] Reference
After all, the assimilation of new ideas is not the most painless of processes, whatever the age of the assimilator. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
Goethe was an assimilator and summed up in himself the spirit of a century, the attitude of predecessors and contemporaries. From Wordnik.com. [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
Those who really know what originality is are not long the slave of the power of imitation: it is the gifted assimilator that suffers most under the spell of mastery. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
He regarded himself as an assimilator of everything that went into him, be it food, sight, sound, or scent, and his perfection as such in exact ratio to the product he derived from them. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885] Reference
Lilienblum and Pinsker were joined by the old nationalist Smolenskin and the former assimilator Levanda. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894)] Reference
Wanderer, a veteran assimilator, struggles with the dogged determination of the woman to retain her identity and values. From Wordnik.com. [Deadline.com] Reference
A great creative mind Van Dyck certainly had not, but, gifted assimilator that he was, he developed many delightful qualities of his art. From Wordnik.com. [Van Dyck A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Painter With Introduction And Interpretation] Reference
Stern refused to accept the post of director which had been offered to him, and yielded his place to Anton Eisenbaum, a radical assimilator. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894)] Reference
Thus was love, as ever, the assimilator of the foreign, the harmonizer of the unlike; the builder of the temple in the desert, and of the chamber in the market-place. From Wordnik.com. [The Vicar's Daughter] Reference
Iran culture assimilator: Spring, 1967, Tehran, Iran (Group Effectiveness Research Laboratory, Dept. of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana) by Martin M Chemers. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Iran opposition unveils new group] Reference
Then the Irish-American League, without the assimilator, went into a private session with cigarettes and near-beer in a small dingy room far down on Fifth Street -- a session that lasted far into the night. From Wordnik.com. [Eve to the Rescue] Reference
You are a born assimilator, Angelo, do you know that? ". From Wordnik.com. [Eve to the Rescue] Reference
It is distinguished from perception by its relative freedom from the dictation of sense; it is distinguished from memory by its power to acquire -- memory only retains; it is distinguished from emotion in being a force rather than a motive; from the understanding in being an assimilator rather than the mere weigher of what is set before it; from the will, because the will is but the wielder of the reins -- the will is but the charioteer, the imagination is the Pharaoh in command. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Poetry] Reference
So I'm probably a good assimilator. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Chensvold: Preppy Evangelist: The Lisa Birnbach Interview] Reference
"I neither have big record nor am I an assimilator. From Wordnik.com. Reference
He's sort of an assimilator of styles. From Wordnik.com. [The Clog] Reference
Auden, W. H., as assimilator, 145-148. From Wordnik.com. [Who's Who] Reference
But there was another Fontenelle, the untrammelled disciple of Descartes, a man of universal interests, passionless, but curious for all knowledge, an assimilator of new ideas, a dissolver of old beliefs, an intermediary between science and the world of fashion, a discreet insinuator of doubts, who smiled but never condescended to laugh, an intelligence supple, subtle, and untiring. From Wordnik.com. [A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.] Reference
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