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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To bring or call together into a group or whole: assembled the jury.
  2. v. To fit together the parts or pieces of: assemble a machine; assemble data.
  3. v. To gather together; congregate. See Synonyms at gather.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To collect into one place or body; bring or call together; convene; congregate.
  2. To fit together. See assembling, 2.
  3. 3.. To join or couple, as one with another, or as in sexual intercourse. Synonyms To convene, collect, congregate, muster, convoke.
  4. To meet or come together; convene, as a number of individuals: as, “the churls assemble,” Dryden, Æneid, vii.
  5. To meet in battle; fight. Synonyms To gather, get together, muster, convene.
  6. n. An assembly.
  7. To be similar to; resemble.
  8. To liken or compare.
  9. In entomology, to collect together (the males of certain moths and other insects) by exposing a female in a wire-gauze cage: an insect-collector's device.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To put together.
  2. v. intransitive To gather as a group.
  3. v. computing to translate from assembly language to machine code

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To collect into one place or body; to bring or call together; to convene; to congregate.
  2. v. To collect and put together the parts of.
  3. v. To meet or come together, as a number of individuals; to convene; to congregate.
  4. v. obsolete To liken; to compare.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. get people together
  2. v. create by putting components or members together
  3. v. collect in one place

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English assemblen, from Old French assembler ("to assemble"), from Medieval Latin assimulare ("to bring together"), from ad- + simul ("together"), from Proto-Indo-European *sōm-, *som- (“together”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one, whole”). Cognate with Old English samnian ("to bring together, assemble"). More at sam. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English assemblen, from Old French assembler, from Vulgar Latin *assimulāre : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin simul, together; see sem-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • jeen0809 People assembled themselves in the park. Mar 14, 2007

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