assemble
verb/əˈsɛm.bəl/
Etymology From Middle English assemblen, from Old French assembler (“to assemble”), from Medieval Latin assimulāre (“to bring together”), from ad- + simulō (“copy, imitate”), from similis (“like, similar”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“together, one”). Doublet of assimilate.
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To put together.
- He assembled the model ship.
- The handman reads copy and assembles type by hand, including straight composition, tables and display.1918, The Industrial Education Survey of the City of New York, page 44:
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- This micro-generation of Silicon Valley start-ups did two basic things: It put together a labor pool to deliver food or clean toilets or assemble IKEA bookshelves, and it found people who needed those things done.2019 March 6, Alexis C. Madrigal, “The Servant Economy”, in The Atlantic:
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Ergative To gather as a group.
- The parents assembled in the school hall.
- Thither he assembled all his train.1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
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- All the men of Israel assembled themselves.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings viii:2:
- Actually, no. The scientists and scholars Heartland is assembling are not members of the gloom-and-doom chorus.2008 December 9, Jeff Jacoby, “Skepticism on climate change”, in The International Herald Tribune, →ISSN:
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To translate from assembly language to machine code.
- Synonyms
- Derived terms
- assemblable, coassemble, disassemble, misassemble, overassemble, preassemble, reassemble, self-assemble, self-assembled, self-assembling, subassemble, unassemble, unassembled
- Hypernyms
- join