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Assembly   /əsˈɛmbli/   Listen
Assembly

noun
(pl. assemblies)
1.
A group of machine parts that fit together to form a self-contained unit.
2.
The act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery).  Synonym: fabrication.  Antonym: disassembly.
3.
A public facility to meet for open discussion.  Synonyms: forum, meeting place.
4.
A group of persons who are gathered together for a common purpose.
5.
A unit consisting of components that have been fitted together.
6.
The social act of assembling.  Synonyms: assemblage, gathering.  Antonym: disassembly.



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"Assembly" Quotes from Famous Books



... assemblies, recruited in every district (generalite) from among the three orders of the noblesse, the clergy, and the third estate. A part of the members were to be chosen by the king; these were commissioned to elect their colleagues, and the assembly was afterwards to fill up its own vacancies as they occurred. The provincial administration was thus confided almost entirely to the assemblies. That of Berry had already abolished forced labor, and collected two hundred thousand livres ...
— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume VI. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot
... who was a widower, gave a great dinner party at his house in Park Crescent, in honour of the engagement. My wife and I attended, fishes somewhat out of water amid this brilliant but solid assembly of what it pleased Barbara to call "merchantates." She expressed a desire to shrink out of the glare of the diamonds; but she wore her grandmother's pearls, and, being by far the youngest and prettiest matron present, held her own with ...
— Jaffery • William J. Locke
... unanimous vote of his fellow citizens deputed him to the Constituent assembly, composed of all that was most brilliant in the youth of France at that day. Less attached in practice to the philosophy of Zeno than that of Epicurus, his name does not figure very conspicuously, but always ...
— The Physiology of Taste • Brillat Savarin
... constitution there is a provision for making a change. These changes are called amendments. An amendment is a law passed by the General Assembly and adopted by a ...
— Citizenship - A Manual for Voters • Emma Guy Cromwell
... once more; but he is so tender-hearted, that he lets his friends be murdered before his eyes almost: or, at least, when he has turned his back upon his duty and his kingdom, and has skulked for safety into the reporters' box, at the National Assembly. There were hundreds of brave men who died that day, and were martyrs, if you will; poor neglected tenth-rate courtiers, for the most part, who had forgotten old slights and disappointments, and left their places of safety to come and die, if need were, sharing in the supreme hour of the ...
— The Paris Sketch Book Of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh • William Makepeace Thackeray


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