Word Meanings - AMERICANIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To render American; to assimilate to the Americans in customs, ideas, etc.; to stamp with American characteristics.

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• AMERICANIZATION
  The process of Americanizing.
• STAMP
  Dan. stampe, Sw. stampa, Icel. stappa, G. stampf a pestle and E. 1. To strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward. Shak. He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground. Dryden. 2. To bring
• AMERICAN
  1. Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians. 2. Of or pertaining to the United States. "A young officer of the American navy." Lyell. American ivy. See Virginia creeper. -- American Party , a party, about 1854,
• AMERICANISM
  1. Attachment to the United States. 2. A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea. 3. A word or phrase peculiar to the United States.
• STAMPING
  from Stamp, v. Stamping ground, a place frequented, and much trodden, by animals, wild or domesticated; hence , the scene of one's labors or exploits; also, one's favorite resort. -- Stamping machine, a machine for forming metallic articles or
• AMERICAN PLAN
  In hotels, aplan upon which guests pay for both room and board by the day, week, or other convenient period; -- contrasted with European plan.
• RENDERABLE
  Capable of being rendered.
• AMERICANIZE
  To render American; to assimilate to the Americans in customs, ideas, etc.; to stamp with American characteristics.
• RENDERER
  1. One who renders. 2. A vessel in which lard or tallow, etc., is rendered.
• STAMPER
  1. One who stamps. 2. An instrument for pounding or stamping.
• RENDERING
  The act of one who renders, or that which is rendered. Specifically: A version; translation; as, the rendering of the Hebrew text. Lowth. In art, the presentation, expression, or interpretation of an idea, theme, or part. The act of laying
• RENDER
  One who rends.
• AMERICAN PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION
  A secret organization in the United States, formed in Iowa in 1887, ostensibly for the protection of American institutions by keeping Roman Catholics out of public office. Abbrev. commonly to A.
• ASSIMILATE
  similare to make like, similis like. See Similar, Assemble, 1. To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between. Sir M. Hale. To assimilate our law to the law of Scotland. John Bright. Fast falls a fleecy; the downy flakes
• STAMPEDE
  A wild, headlong scamper, or running away, of a number of animals; usually caused by fright; hence, any sudden flight or dispersion, as of a crowd or an army in consequence of a panic. She and her husband would join in the general stampede.
• ENSTAMP
  To stamp; to mark as It is the motive . . . which enstamps the character. Gogan.
• MISRENDER
  To render wrongly; to translate or recite wrongly. Boyle.
• SURRENDER
  To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion. (more info) 1. To yield to the power
• REASSIMILATE
  To assimilate again. -- Re`as*sim`i*la"tion, n.
• SURRENDEROR
  One who makes a surrender, as of an estate. Bouvier.
• ANTI-AMERICAN
  Opposed to the Americans, their aims, or interests, or to the genius of American institutions. Marshall.
• PAN-AMERICAN
  Of or pertaining to both North and South America.
• PAN-AMERICAN CONGRESS
  various American states; esp.: One held in 1889-90 in the United States, at which all the independent states except Santo Domingo were represented and of which the practical result was the establishment of the Bureau of American Republics for the
• PRENDER
  The power or right of taking a thing before it is offered. Burrill.
• INSTAMP
  See ENSTAMP