Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To bring or call together into a group or whole: assembled the jury.
- v. To fit together the parts or pieces of: assemble a machine; assemble data.
- v. To gather together; congregate. See Synonyms at gather.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To collect into one place or body; bring or call together; convene; congregate.
- To fit together. See assembling, 2.
- 3.. To join or couple, as one with another, or as in sexual intercourse. Synonyms To convene, collect, congregate, muster, convoke.
- To meet or come together; convene, as a number of individuals: as, “the churls assemble,” Dryden, Æneid, vii.
- To meet in battle; fight. Synonyms To gather, get together, muster, convene.
- n. An assembly.
- To be similar to; resemble.
- To liken or compare.
- 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
- v. transitive To put together.
- v. intransitive To gather as a group.
- v. computing to translate from assembly language to machine code
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To collect into one place or body; to bring or call together; to convene; to congregate.
- v. To collect and put together the parts of.
- v. To meet or come together, as a number of individuals; to convene; to congregate.
- v. obsolete To liken; to compare.
WordNet 3.0
- v. get people together
- v. create by putting components or members together
- v. collect in one place
Etymologies
- 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)
- 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)
Examples
“However, in either case the right to assemble is being restricted.”
“However, in either case the right to assemble is being restricted.”
“The right to freely assemble is central to the genius of our democracy.”
“The astronauts and mechanical arms can certain assemble a small SEP and put the payload aboard.”
“The original concerns were raised by theorists on a "non-zero" possibility that something like a strangelet could assemble from a quark-gluon plasma.”
“You can go back decades and pick whatever government action you want in demonstrating that the "people's right to peaceably assemble" is open to, uh, varying degrees of interpretation before the guys with guns on the public payroll let loose.”
“Luckily, this was an easy supper to assemble from the pantry and in-house leftovers.”
“The right to assemble is guaranteed to all, that is correct.”
“The media has been given word that the reason they cannot assemble is because of potential for fire.”
“This year, Technology Review magazine will again assemble a list of top young innovators under the age of 35 -- the TR35, or "35 Innovators under 35.”
Lists
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
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LIT - Iliad - key words and protagonists
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VNCle
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good ones
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Basic English Vocabulary
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my list
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fitting words
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
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hustle & bustle
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Lesson 1
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jeen0809 People assembled themselves in the park. Mar 14, 2007