assemble

See also: assemblé

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): /əˈsɛm.bəl/

• Audio (US):

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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.

   • 1918, The Industrial Education Survey of the City of New York, page 44:

     The handman reads copy and assembles type by hand, including straight composition, tables and display.

   • 2019 March 6, Alexis C. Madrigal, “The Servant Economy”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     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. (ambitransitive) To gather as a group.

   The parents assembled in the school hall.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →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.

   • 2008 December 9, Jeff Jacoby, “Skepticism on climate change”, in The International Herald Tribune‎^[2], →ISSN:

     Actually, no. The scientists and scholars Heartland is assembling are not members of the gloom-and-doom chorus.

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

• assemblable
• coassemble
• disassemble
• misassemble
• overassemble
• preassemble
• reassemble
• self-assemble
• self-assembled
• self-assembling
• subassemble
• unassemble
• unassembled

Translations

to put together

• Albanian: lidh (sq), montoj (sq), ngjis, bashkoj (sq)
• Armenian: հավաքել (hy) (havakʻel)
• Azerbaijani: quraşdırmaq (az), yığmaq (az)
• Bulgarian: сглобявам (bg) (sglobjavam), монтирам (bg) (montiram)
• Catalan: muntar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 砌 (cai³)

  Mandarin: 收集 (zh) (shōují), 組合 / 组合 (zh) (zǔhé), 聚集 (zh) (jùjí)

• Dutch: in elkaar zetten
• Egyptian: (dmḏj)
• Esperanto: kunmeti
• Finnish: koota (fi)
• French: assembler (fr), rassembler (fr), monter (fr)
• Galician: ensamblar (gl), montar (gl)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: zusammensetzen (de), versammeln (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: συντίθημι (suntíthēmi)

• Hebrew: אסף (he) (asáf)
• Hungarian: összerak (hu), összeállít (hu), összeszerel (hu)
• Icelandic: setja saman
• Indonesian: merakit (id)
• Irish: cruinnigh
• Italian: assemblare (it), montare (it), mettere insieme
• Japanese: 集める (ja) (あつめる, atsumeru), 組み立てる (ja) (くみたてる, kumitateru)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: سر هم کردن (sar-e ham kardan), سرهمیدن, فراهمیدن (farāhamidan)
• Polish: montować (pl), zmontować pf
• Portuguese: montar (pt), juntar (pt)
• Quechua: tantay, huñuy
• Romanian: asambla (ro), monta (ro)
• Russian: собира́ть (ru) impf (sobirátʹ), собра́ть (ru) pf (sobrátʹ), монти́ровать (ru) (montírovatʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: са̀ставити

  Roman: sàstaviti (sh)

• Spanish: ensamblar (es), construir (es), montar (es)
• Swedish: sätta ihop, montera (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: tập hợp (vi)

to gather as a group

• Albanian: mbledh (sq), grumbulloj (sq), bashkoj (sq)
• Armenian: հավաքվել (hy) (havakʻvel)
• Bulgarian: свиквам (bg) (svikvam), събирам се (sǎbiram se)
• Cherokee: ᎠᎾᏓᏟᏏᎭ (anadatlisiha)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聚集 (zh) (jùjí)

• Czech: shromáždit se
• Dutch: samenkomen (nl), zich verzamelen
• Esperanto: arigi
• Finnish: kokoontua (fi)
• French: se rassembler (fr), s’assembler (fr), se réunir (fr)
• German: sich versammeln (de), zusammenkommen (de)
• Hebrew: התאסף (hit'aséf), כנס (he) (kanás)
• Hungarian: összegyűlik (hu), egybegyűlik (hu)
• Icelandic: kalla saman
• Indonesian: berkumpul (id)
• Irish: tiomsaigh
• Italian: riunire (it), riunirsi (it), adunare (it), adunarsi (it),
• Japanese: 集まる (ja) (あつまる, atsumaru)
• Korean: 모으다 (ko) (mo'euda)
• Latin: coeō, conveniō (la)
• Maori: whakahuihui, whakamine, karawhiti, rūpeke, ikapahi
• Persian: جمع شدن (fa) (jam' šodan), گرد هم آمدن (gerd-e ham âmadan), فراهمیدن (farāhamidan)
• Plautdietsch: toopkomen
• Polish: zbierać się (pl), gromadzić się (pl)
• Portuguese: reunir-se, juntar-se
• Quechua: tantay, huñuy
• Romanian: reuni (ro)
• Russian: собира́ться (ru) impf (sobirátʹsja), собра́ться (ru) pf (sobrátʹsja)
• Spanish: reunir (es), juntar (es)
• Swedish: samlas (sv), sammankallas (sv)
• Thai: รวมตัว
• Tocharian B: kraup-

computing: to translate from assembly language to machine code

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 彙編 / 汇编 (zh) (huìbiān)

• Finnish: kääntää (fi)
• Icelandic: smala
• Swedish: assemblera

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} assembler (fr) (1), ^{(please verify)} se rassembler (fr) (2)
• Nahuatl: ^{(please verify)} centalia
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} sklopiti (sh), ^{(please verify)} montirati (sh)

Anagrams

• beamless

French

Pronunciation

• Audio (Canada):

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Verb

assemble

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