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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.
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Assemble
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Origin:
1200–50; Middle English < Old French assembler < Vulgar Latin *assimulāre to bring together, equivalent to Latin as- as- + simul together + -ā- thematic vowel + -re infinitive suffix
1200–50; Middle English < Old French assembler < Vulgar Latin *assimulāre to bring together, equivalent to Latin as- as- + simul together + -ā- thematic vowel + -re infinitive suffix
Antonyms
1, 4. disperse.
1, 4. disperse.
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noun, plural -blés 
[Fr. -bley] . Ballet.
[Fr. -bley] . Ballet. a jump in which the dancer throws one leg up, springs off the other, and lands with both feet together.
Origin:
< French, past participle of assembler to assemble
< French, past participle of assembler to assemble
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Word Origin & History
assemble
mid-13c. (trans.), c.1300 (intrans.), from O.Fr. assembler (11c.), from L. assimulare "to make like, think like," later "to gather together," from ad- "to" + simulare "to make like" (see simulation). In 14c. it also was a euphemism for "to couple sexually." Assemble together
EXPANDis redundant. Meaning "to put parts together" in manufacturing is from 1852.
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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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