assemble

See also: assemblé

English

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.

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. (ergative) 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 — see also construct

• Albanian: lidh (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 Greek: συντίθημι (suntíthēmi)

• Hebrew: אסף (he) (asáf)
• Hungarian: összerak (hu), összeállít (hu), összeszerel (hu)
• Icelandic: setja saman (is)
• 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 (pl) 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

  Latin: sàstaviti (sh)

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

transitive: to gather as a group — see also muster,‎ reunite

• Albanian: mbledh (sq), grumbulloj (sq), bashkoj (sq)
• Armenian: հավաքվել (hy) (havakʻvel)
• Bulgarian: свиквам (bg) (svikvam), събирам се (săbiram 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)
• Māori: 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: juntar (es), asemblar
• Swedish: samlas (sv), sammankallas (sv)
• Tamil: கூடு (ta) (kūṭu)
• 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

• IPA^(key): /a.sɑ̃bl/

• Audio (Canada (Shawinigan)):

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Verb

assemble

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