Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To bring or call together into a group or whole: synonym: call.
- intransitive verb To fit together the parts or pieces of.
- intransitive verb To gather together; congregate: synonym: gather.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
- noun An assembly.
- To be similar to; resemble.
- To liken or compare.
- 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.
- To meet or come together; convene, as a number of individuals: as, “the churls assemble,” Dryden, Æneid, vii.
- To meet in battle; fight.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To meet or come together, as a number of individuals; to convene; to congregate.
- intransitive verb obsolete To liken; to compare.
- transitive verb To collect into one place or body; to bring or call together; to convene; to congregate.
- transitive verb To collect and put together the parts of.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
put together . - verb intransitive To
gather as a group. - verb computing to
translate fromassembly language tomachine code
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb get people together
- verb create by putting components or members together
- verb collect in one place
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"However, in either case the right to assemble is being restricted."
Obama Administration Looks To Reinstate Assault-Weapons Ban 2009
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The right to freely assemble is central to the genius of our democracy.
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However, in either case the right to assemble is being restricted.
Obama Administration Looks To Reinstate Assault-Weapons Ban 2009
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However, in either case the right to assemble is being restricted.
Obama Administration Looks To Reinstate Assault-Weapons Ban 2009
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The astronauts and mechanical arms can certain assemble a small SEP and put the payload aboard.
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"However, in either case the right to assemble is being restricted."
Obama Administration Looks To Reinstate Assault-Weapons Ban 2009
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The astronauts and mechanical arms can certain assemble a small SEP and put the payload aboard.
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The original concerns were raised by theorists on a "non-zero" possibility that something like a strangelet could assemble from a quark-gluon plasma.
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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.
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Luckily, this was an easy supper to assemble from the pantry and in-house leftovers.
Toast: Lindy 2007
jeen0809 commented on the word assemble
People assembled themselves in the park.
March 14, 2007