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as⋅sem⋅ble

  [uh-sem-buhl] verb, -bled, -bling.
Use Assemble in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to bring together or gather into one place, company, body, or whole.
2. to put or fit together; put together the parts of: to assemble information for a report; to assemble a toy from a kit.
3. Computers. compile (def. 4).
–verb (used without object)
4. to come together; gather; meet: We assembled in the auditorium.
Origin:
1200–50; ME < OF assembler < VL *assimulāre to bring together, equiv. to L as- as- + simul together + -ā- thematic vowel + -re inf. suffix

Synonyms:
1. convene, convoke. See gather. 2. connect. See manufacture. 4. congregate, convene.

Antonyms:
1, 4. disperse.
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as⋅sem⋅blé

  [Fr. a-sahn-bley]
–noun, plural -blés  [Fr. -bley] . Ballet.
a jump in which the dancer throws one leg up, springs off the other, and lands with both feet together.
Origin:
< F, ptp. of assembler to assemble
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as·sem·ble   (ə-sěm'bəl)   
v.   as·sem·bled, as·sem·bling, as·sem·bles

v.   tr.

  1. To bring or call together into a group or whole: assembled the jury.

  2. 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.]
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Word Origin & History

assemble 
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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: as·sem·ble
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: -bled; -bling
transitive verb : to bring or summon together into a group esp. in a particular place for a particular purpose intransitive verb : to come or meet together in a group often formally or for a common purpose assemble —U.S. Constitution amendment I>
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assemble

(French: "step put together"), in classical ballet, a movement in which a dancer's feet or legs are brought together in the air and the dancer lands on both feet. It can be done front, back, dessus, dessous, and so on.

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