Definitions for assemble
əˈsɛm bəlas·sem·ble

Princeton's WordNet(4.33 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack togetherverb

   create by putting components or members together

   "She pieced a quilt"; "He tacked together some verses"; "They set up a committee"

2. meet, gather, assemble, forgather, foregatherverb

   collect in one place

   "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room"

3. assemble, gather, get togetherverb

   get people together

   "assemble your colleagues"; "get together all those who are interested in the project"; "gather the close family members"

Wiktionary(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. assembleverb

   To put together.

   He assembled the model ship.

2. assembleverb

   To gather as a group.

   The parents assembled in the school hall.

3. assembleverb

   to translate from assembly language to machine code

4. Etymology: From assemblen, from assembler, from assimulare, from ad- + simul, from sōm-, from sem-. Cognate with samnian. More at sam.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. To ASSEMBLEverb

   To bring together into one place. It is used both of persons and things.

   Etymology: assembler, Fr.

   And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah. Job, xi. 12.

   He wonders for what end you have assembled
   Such troops of citizens to come to him. William Shakespeare, Richard III.

2. To Assembleverb

   To meet together.

   These men assembled, and found Daniel praying. Dan. vi. 11.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Assembleverb

   to collect into one place or body; to bring or call together; to convene; to congregate

2. Assembleverb

   to meet or come together, as a number of individuals; to convene; to congregate

3. Assembleverb

   to liken; to compare

4. Etymology: [F. assembler, fr. LL. assimulare to bring together to collect; L. ad + simul together; akin to similis like, Gr. at the same time, and E. same. Cf. Assimilate, Same.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Assemble

   Assemble is the debut full-length album recorded by the Stoke-based ska punk band Grown at Home. It was produced with Curig Huws. The album was released by Cash for Pigs Records on 6 July 2006 on compact disc.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Assemble

   as-sem′bl, v.t. to call or bring together: to collect.—v.i. to meet together.—ns. Assem′blage, a collection of persons or things; Assem′blance (Spens.), an assembling: (Shak.) semblance: representation; Assem′bly, the act of assembling: the company so assembled: a gathering of persons for any purpose, as for religious worship or social entertainment: specially applied to the lower house of the legislature in some of the United States and British colonies: (mil.) a drum-beat, esp. that before a march, upon which the soldiers strike their tents; Assem′bly-room, a room in which persons assemble, especially for dancing.—General Assembly, in Scotland, Ireland, and the United States, the highest court of the Presbyterian Church; Legislative Assembly, in many of the British colonies, the title of the lower house of the legislature; National Assembly, the first of the revolutionary assemblies in France, which sat 1789-91—also called the Constituent Assembly, superseded in 1791 by the Legislative Assembly. [Fr. assembler—Late L. assimulāre, to bring together, ad, to, similis, like. See Assimilate.]

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. assemble

   A step-by-step process to create or put a product together.

   We did assemble the kitchen table easily together, this was good fun as we have chosen to marry.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on March 17, 2020  

British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'assemble' in Verbs Frequency: #805

Anagrams for assemble »

1. beamless

How to pronounce assemble?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of assemble in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of assemble in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of assemble in a Sentence

1. Marco Rubio:

   It will be soon -- these are old documents and they take time to assemble, i have no problem releasing it. We have nothing to withhold here.

2. William Nguyen:

   I can’t stress how enormous of an achievement this is for the Vietnamese people, the communist government is allowing people to assemble peacefully and the people are exercising their civic duty to protest injustice.

3. Scott Stewart:

   When we take all these little puzzle pieces together and we assemble our mosaic, it's very clear that they're having issues. ... I believe that they are hurting.

4. Giuseppe Pecorino:

   They could even make us assemble bicycles as long as that will keep us working.

5. Michael Marks:

   These were two relatively sophisticated devices that went off almost simultaneously. They had a very, very short delay, it would be my opinion that they had somebody who was more of a skilled bomb maker, an engineer if you will, assist them in saying these are the steps you need to go through and then assemble the device to make it safely and to make it function the way they want.

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