The bringing of people of different racial or ethnic groups into unrestricted and equal association, as in society or an organization; desegregation, The act of integrating, or bringing together the parts of an integral whole; the act of segregating and bringing together similar particles, the act of combining into an integral whole

To move over a surface while maintaining smooth continuous contact, Baseball To drop down from a running into a lying or diving position when approaching a base so as to avoid being tagged out, To place covertly or deftly, noun_ An object holding by friction upon a band, tag, cord, or the like, and serving to hold its parts or strands in place, A slip or inadvertence, A smooth surface, especially of ice, for sliding on

a serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles

someone for whom hope has been abandoned