assemble

English

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈsɛmbl̩/

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• Hyphenation: as‧sem‧ble

Verb

assemble (third-person singular simple present assembles, present participle assembling, simple past and past participle assembled)

1. (transitive) To put together.

   He assembled the model ship.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To gather as a group.

   The parents assembled in the school hall.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:

     Thither he assembled all his train.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, 1 Kings viii:2:

     All the men of Israel assembled themselves.

3. (computing) To translate from assembly language to machine code.

Synonyms

• (to put together): build, construct, produce, put together; see also Thesaurus:build
• (to gather as a group): collect, begather; see also Thesaurus:assemble or Thesaurus:round up

Derived terms

• self-assembling

Translations

Anagrams

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French

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Verb

assemble

1. inflection of assembler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative