To bring or call together into a group or whole: assembled the jury.
To fit together the parts or pieces of: assemble a machine; assemble data.
v.
intr.
To gather together; congregate. See Synonyms at gather.
[Middle English assemblen, from Old French assembler, from Vulgar Latin *assimulāre : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin simul, together; see sem-1 in Indo-European roots.]
c.1250 (trans.), c.1300 (intrans.), from O.Fr. assembler, from L. assimulare "to make like, think like," later "to gather together," from ad- "to" + simul "together." In 14c. it also was a euphemism for "to couple sexually." Assemble together is redundant. Meaning "to put parts together" in manufacturing is from 1852; assembly line is first recorded 1914, Amer.Eng. Assembly is 1330, from O.Fr. assemblee.
As*sem"blage\, n. [Cf. F. assemblage. See Assemble.]1. The act of assembling, or the state of being assembled; association. In sweet assemblage every blooming grace. --Fenton. 2. A collection of individuals, or of individuals, or of particular things; as, a political assemblage; an assemblage of ideas. Syn: Company; group; collection; concourse; gathering; meeting; convention. Usage: Assemblage, Assembly. An assembly consists only of persons; an assemblage may be composed of things as well as persons, as, an assemblage of incoherent objects. Nor is every assemblage of persons an assembly; since the latter term denotes a body who have met, and are acting, in concert for some common end, such as to hear, to deliberate, to unite in music, dancing, etc. An assemblage of skaters on a lake, or of horse jockeys at a race course, is not an assembly, but might be turned into one by collecting into a body with a view to discuss and decide as to some object of common interest.
As*sem"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Assembled; p. pr. & vb. n. Assembling.] [F. assembler, fr. LL. assimulare to bring together to collect; L. ad + simul together; akin to similis like, Gr. ? at the same time, and E. same. Cf. Assimilate, Same.] To collect into one place or body; to bring or call together; to convene; to congregate. Thither he assembled all his train. --Milton. All the men of Israel assembled themselves. --1 Kings viii. 2.
As*sem"ble\, v. i. To meet or come together, as a number of individuals; to convene; to congregate. --Dryden. The Parliament assembled in November. --W. Massey.