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assemble verb [ əˈsɛmb(ə)l ]

• (of people) gather together in one place for a common purpose.
• "a crowd had assembled outside the gates"
Similar: come together, get together, gather, collect, meet, muster, rally, congregate, convene, flock together, foregather,
Opposite: disperse,
• fit together the separate component parts of (a machine or other object).
• "my new machine is being assembled and my old one dismantled"
Similar: construct, build, fabricate, manufacture, erect, set up, join up, fit together, put together, piece together, connect, join, unite, patch up, sew (up),
Opposite: dismantle,
• translate (a program) from a higher-level programming language into machine code.
• "assemble the program and produce a file suitable to input to the simulator"
Origin: Middle English: from Old French asembler, based on Latin ad- ‘to’ + simul ‘together’.

assemblé noun

• a leap in which the feet are brought together before landing.


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