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/əsˈɛmbəlɪŋ/ /əsˈɛmblɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Assemble v. t. (past & past part. assembled; pres. part. assembling)

To collect into one place or body; to bring or call together; to convene; to congregate. "Thither he assembled all his train." "All the men of Israel assembled themselves."

To collect and put together the parts of; as, to assemble a bicycle, watch, gun, or other manufactured article.

Assemble v. i. To meet or come together, as a number of individuals; to convene; to congregate. "The Parliament assembled in November."

Assemble v. i. To liken; to compare. (Obs.) "Bribes may be assembled to pitch."

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Etymology of 'Assembling'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Assembling" Quotes from Famous Books

... exceeding the cost limit fixed by the house, it was always a puzzle to Doctor Briggs why the majority of the articles left out were invariably those that he had brought in, while many of those which Doctor Patton handed in somehow found their place, upon the final assembling, among the contents. ...

— The Americanization of Edward Bok - The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After • Edward William Bok (1863-1930)

... a bath!" said Mary Lou, indignantly. Mary Lou never took baths easily, or as a matter of course. She always made an event of them, choosing an inconvenient hour, assembling soap, clothing and towels with maddening deliberation, running about in slippered feet for a full hour before she locked herself into, and everybody else out of, the bathroom. An hour later she would emerge ...

— Saturday's Child • Kathleen Norris

... Israel, presided. None sat down at the feast but those that were bidden. And only "about thirty persons" were invited. Quite a select party!—the elite of the city of Zuph! Saul and his servant arrived at Zuph just as the party was assembling; and both of them, at Samuel's solicitation, accompany him as invited guests. "And Samuel took Saul and his SERVANT, and brought THEM into the PARLOR(!) and made THEM sit in the CHIEFEST SEATS among those that were bidden." A servant ...

— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society

... can I say to convince, to move you? The assassins are already assembling, the time wanes fast, and will you stretch forth no hand to save their ...

— Elsie at Nantucket • Martha Finley

... to return to conformity. I was sent a written invitation to attend the caucus of Republican Senators after the assembling of Congress; and, with the other "insurgents," I ignored the invitation. It was finally decided by the party leaders to let the tariff bill rest until after the inauguration of the President-elect, William McKinley, with the understanding that he would call a special ...

— Under the Prophet in Utah - The National Menace of a Political Priestcraft • Frank J. Cannon and Harvey J. O'Higgins

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