Verb

• present participle of churn

Noun

• The act by which something is churned.
• The quantity of butter prepared (by churning) at one time.

Noun

• The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
• The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
• (by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
• (phonology) A sound change process by which the phonetics of a speech segment becomes more like that of another segment in a word (or at a word boundary), so that a change of phoneme occurs.
• (sociology, cultural studies) The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.

Examples

• –France swarms with Gracchus’s and Publicolas, who by imaginary assimilations of acts, which a change of manners has rendered different, fancy themselves more than equal to their prototypes.
• His work generally is full of assimilations and quotations from art that is not Mexican, and he’s said, “Nationalism has nothing to do with my work.
• We have great need to be careful in these assimilations; some kinds of food are rich but not easily digested.
• Hence, rather than being the result of mishearing and assimilation, the application of Hobson-Jobson to the Muharram was intentionally disparaging.