# assemble
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English assemblen, from Old French assembler (“to assemble”), from Medieval Latin assimulāre (“to bring together”), from ad- +‎ simulō (“copy, imitate”), from similis (“like, similar”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“together, one”). Doublet of assimilate.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /əˈsɛm.bəl/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: as‧sem‧ble

### Verb

assemble (third-person singular simple present assembles, present participle assembling, simple past and past participle assembled)
* (transitive) To put together.
    He assembled the model ship.
** 1918, The Industrial Education Survey of the City of New York, page 44:The handman reads copy and assembles type by hand, including straight composition, tables and display.
** 2019 March 6, Alexis C. Madrigal, “The Servant Economy”, in The Atlantic‎:This micro-generation of Silicon Valley start-ups did two basic things: It put together a labor pool to deliver food or clean toilets or assemble IKEA bookshelves, and it found people who needed those things done.
* (ambitransitive) To gather as a group.
    The parents assembled in the school hall.
** 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:Thither he assembled all his train.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings viii:2:All the men of Israel assembled themselves.
** 2008 December 9, Jeff Jacoby, “Skepticism on climate change”, in The International Herald Tribune‎, →ISSN:Actually, no. The scientists and scholars Heartland is assembling are not members of the gloom-and-doom chorus.
* (computing) To translate from assembly language to machine code.

#### Synonyms

* (to put together): build, construct, produce, put together; see also Thesaurus:build
* (to gather as a group): collect, begather; see also Thesaurus:assemble or Thesaurus:round up

#### Derived terms

* assemblable
* coassemble
* disassemble
* misassemble
* overassemble
* preassemble
* reassemble
* self-assemble
* self-assembled
* self-assembling
* subassemble
* unassemble
* unassembled

#### Translations

Albanian: lidh (sq), montoj (sq), ngjis, bashkoj (sq)
Armenian: հավաքել (hy) (havakʻel)
Azerbaijani: quraşdırmaq (az), yığmaq (az)
Bulgarian: сглобявам (bg) (sglobjavam), монтирам (bg) (montiram)
Catalan: muntar (ca)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 砌 (cai$^3$)
Mandarin: 收集 (zh) (shōují), 組合 / 组合 (zh) (zǔhé), 聚集 (zh) (jùjí)
Dutch: in elkaar zetten
Egyptian: (dmḏj)
Esperanto: kunmeti
Finnish: koota (fi)
French: assembler (fr), rassembler (fr), monter (fr)
Galician: ensamblar (gl), montar (gl)
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: zusammensetzen (de), versammeln (de)
Greek:
Ancient: συντίθημι (suntíthēmi)
Hebrew: אסף (he) (asáf)
Hungarian: összerak (hu), összeállít (hu), összeszerel (hu)
Icelandic: samansetja
Indonesian: merakit (id)
Irish: cruinnigh
Italian: assemblare (it), montare (it), mettere insieme
Japanese: 集める (ja) (あつめる, atsumeru), 組み立てる (ja) (くみたてる, kumitateru)
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Persian: سر هم کردن (sar-e ham kardan), سرهمیدن, فراهمیدن (farāhamidan)
Polish: montować (pl), zmontować pf
Portuguese: montar (pt), juntar (pt)
Quechua: tantay, huñuy
Romanian: asambla (ro), monta (ro)
Russian: собира́ть (ru) impf (sobirátʹ), собра́ть (ru) pf (sobrátʹ), монти́ровать (ru) (montírovatʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: са̀ставити
Roman: sàstaviti (sh)
Spanish: ensamblar (es), construir (es), montar (es)
Swedish: sätta ihop, montera (sv)
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Vietnamese: tập hợp (vi) :
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### Anagrams

* beamless

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Canada):(file)

### Verb

assemble
* inflection of assembler:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative