assembly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɛmb.lɪ/
ipa: /əˈsɛmb.li/
Forms: form: assemblies
Etymology: From Middle English assemblee, from Anglo-Norman asemblee (Old French asemblee, French assemblée). By surface analysis, assemble + -y.
Senses: examples: text: In order to change the bearing, you must first remove the gearbox assembly.
text: Sheets of water poured over the car, making visibility all but nil. Suddenly the windshield wiper, not just the blade but the entire assembly, blew off.
ref: 1980 December 6, Nancy Walker, “Toodle-Oo, Doodle”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 20, page 12:
glosses: A set of pieces that work together in unison as a mechanism or device.
examples: text: instructions for assembly
text: some assembly required
text: assembly line
text: The bogies are built up of welded sub-units which are stress-relieved before assembly by riveting.
ref: 1961 October, “New Metropolitan Line train sets enter service”, in Trains Illustrated, page 622:
glosses: The act or process of putting together a set of pieces, fragments, or elements.
examples: text: school assembly
text: freedom of assembly
text: In a word, they were made uſe of by the immediate ſucceſſors of the Apoſtles, and many of them read in the Public Aſſemblies of Chriſtians, as Canonical Scripture, without the leaſt mark of Diſtinction, in point of Autority[…]
ref: 1732, George Reynolds, A diſſertation: or, Inquiry Concerning the Canonical Autority of the Goſpel according to Mathew; […] , 2nd edition, page 4:
text: They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
ref: 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC, page 9:
glosses: A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.
examples: text: the General Assembly of the United Nations
text: New York State Assembly
topics: government
politics
glosses: A legislative body.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of assembly language.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A building block of an application, similar to a DLL, but containing both executable code and information normally found in a DLL's type library. The type library information in an assembly, called a manifest, describes public functions, data, classes, and version information.
Synonyms: word: church
sense: congregation of people
word: foregathering
Hyponyms: house of assembly
jural assembly
Derived terms: assembly hall
assembly language
assembly line
assemblyman
assemblymember
assemblyosome
assemblyperson
assembly plant
assembly point
assembly room
assembly ship
assembly time
assemblywoman
autoassembly
bioassembly
brake assembly
card assembly
Church Assembly
coassembly
conditional assembly language
constituent assembly
disassembly
freedom of assembly
general assembly
genome assembly
interassembly
macroassembly
microassembly
misassembly
multiassembly
nanoassembly
national assembly
open assembly time
parish assembly
popular assembly
postassembly
preassembly
reassembly
roof assembly
self-assembly
sequence assembly
subassembly
superassembly
supramolecular assembly
tactical assembly area
unassembly