assemble
verbcommon in dialogue
- //əˈsɛm.bəl//
To put together.
verb
- 1
To put together.
He assembled the model ship.
The handman reads copy and assembles type by hand, including straight composition, tables and display.
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.
- 2
To gather as a group.
The parents assembled in the school hall.
Thither he assembled all his train.
All the men of Israel assembled themselves.
Actually, no. The scientists and scholars Heartland is assembling are not members of the gloom-and-doom chorus.
- 3
To translate from assembly language to machine code.
Etymology
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.
Forms
- past tense
- assembled
- past participle
- assembled
- present participle
- assembling
- third person singular
- assembles