verb
Meaning 1
To put together.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- He assembled the model ship.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
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verb
To put together.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To gather as a group.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ergative
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To translate from assembly language to machine code.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
create by putting components or members together
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together
Antonyms: disassemble
Broader terms: join, bring together, make, create
Narrower terms: confect, confection, comfit, jumble, confuse, mix up, reassemble, configure, compound, rig up
verb
collect in one place
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: meet, gather, forgather, foregather
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: interact
Narrower terms: group, aggroup, meet, congregate, hive, fort, fort up, convene, cluster, constellate, flock, clump, crowd, crowd together, converge, turn out, caucus, club
verb
get people together
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: gather, get together
Antonyms: none provided
Narrower terms: make
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h2éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sem-h2-lo- Proto-Italic *semalis Latin similis Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh2yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h2tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin simulō Medieval Latin assimulōder. Old French assemblerbor. Middle English assemblen English assemble 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.
Across languages
121 source translations are retained for this English entry.