Meanings
present singular third person assembles · participle present assembling · participle past assembled · past assembled
- transitiveTo put together.
He assembled the model ship.
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The handman reads copy and assembles type by hand, including straight composition, tables and display.
1918, The Industrial Education Survey of the City of New York, page 44This 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.
2019 March 6, Alexis C. Madrigal, “The Servant Economy”, in The AtlanticSynonyms: build
- ergativeTo gather as a group.
The parents assembled in the school hall.
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Thither he assembled all his train.
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, →OCLCAll the men of Israel assembled themselves.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings viii:2Actually, no. The scientists and scholars Heartland is assembling are not members of the gloom-and-doom chorus.
2008 December 9, Jeff Jacoby, “Skepticism on climate change”, in The International Herald Tribune, →ISSNSynonyms: collect
- computingTo translate from assembly language to machine code.
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo put together.
verbTo gather as a group.
More synonyms by meaning
verbcreate by putting components or members together
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
- Proto-Italic*ad
- Proto-Italic*ad-
- Latinad-
- Proto-Indo-European*sem-
- Proto-Indo-European*sem-h₂-lo-
- Proto-Italic*semalis
- Latinsimilis
- Latinsimulō
- Medieval Latinassimulō
- Old Frenchassembler
- Middle Englishassemblen
- Englishassemble
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.
More words from Middle English, Old French, Medieval Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Ancient Greek συντίθημι
- συντίθημι (suntíthēmi)to put together
Bulgarian сглобявам, монтирам
- сглобявам (sglobjavam)to put together
- монтирам (montiram)to put together
- свиквам (svikvam)transitive: to gather as a group
- събирам се (săbiram se)transitive: to gather as a group
Catalan muntar
- muntarto put together
Chinese Cantonese 砌
- 砌 (cai³)to put together
Chinese Mandarin 收集, 組合 /组合
- 收集 (shōují)to put together
- 組合 /组合 (zǔhé)to put together
- 聚集 (jùjí)to put together
- 聚集 (jùjí)transitive: to gather as a group
- 彙編 /汇编 (huìbiān)computing: to translate from assembly language to machine code
Czech shromáždit se
- shromáždit setransitive: to gather as a group
Dutch in elkaar zetten, samenkomen
- in elkaar zettento put together
- samenkomentransitive: to gather as a group
- zich verzamelentransitive: to gather as a group
Esperanto kunmeti, arigi
- kunmetito put together
- arigitransitive: to gather as a group
Finnish koota, kokoontua
- kootato put together
- kokoontuatransitive: to gather as a group
- kääntääcomputing: to translate from assembly language to machine code
French assembler, rassembler
- assemblerto put together
- rassemblerto put together
- monterto put together
- se rassemblertransitive: to gather as a group
- s'assemblertransitive: to gather as a group
- se réunirtransitive: to gather as a group
German zusammensetzen, versammeln
- zusammensetzento put together
- versammelnto put together
- sich versammelntransitive: to gather as a group
- zusammenkommentransitive: to gather as a group
Hebrew אסף, התאסף
- אסף (asáf)to put together
- התאסף (hit'aséf)transitive: to gather as a group
- כנס (kanás)transitive: to gather as a group
Hungarian összerak, összeállít
- összerakto put together
- összeállítto put together
- összeszerelto put together
- összegyűliktransitive: to gather as a group
- egybegyűliktransitive: to gather as a group
Icelandic setja saman, kalla saman
- setja samanto put together
- kalla samantransitive: to gather as a group
- smalacomputing: to translate from assembly language to machine code
Indonesian merakit, berkumpul
- merakitto put together
- berkumpultransitive: to gather as a group
Irish cruinnigh, tiomsaigh
- cruinnighto put together
- tiomsaightransitive: to gather as a group
Italian assemblare, montare
- assemblareto put together
- montareto put together
- mettere insiemeto put together
- riuniretransitive: to gather as a group
- riunirsitransitive: to gather as a group
- adunaretransitive: to gather as a group
- adunarsitransitive: to gather as a group
Japanese 集める, 組み立てる
- 集める (atsumeru)to put together
- 組み立てる (kumitateru)to put together
- 集まる (atsumaru)transitive: to gather as a group
Korean 모으다
- 모으다 (mo'euda)transitive: to gather as a group
Latin coeō, conveniō
- coeōtransitive: to gather as a group
- conveniōtransitive: to gather as a group
Māori whakahuihui, whakamine
- whakahuihuitransitive: to gather as a group
- whakaminetransitive: to gather as a group
- karawhititransitive: to gather as a group
- rūpeketransitive: to gather as a group
- ikapahitransitive: to gather as a group
Persian سر هم کردن, سرهمیدن
- سر هم کردن (sar-e ham kardan)to put together
- سرهمیدنto put together
- فراهمیدن (farāhamidan)to put together
- جمع شدن (jam' šodan)transitive: to gather as a group
- گرد هم آمدن (gerd-e ham âmadan)transitive: to gather as a group
- فراهمیدن (farāhamidan)transitive: to gather as a group
Polish montować, zmontować
- montowaćto put together
- zmontowaćto put together
- zbierać siętransitive: to gather as a group
- gromadzić siętransitive: to gather as a group
Portuguese montar, juntar
- montarto put together
- juntarto put together
- reunir-setransitive: to gather as a group
- juntar-setransitive: to gather as a group
Romanian asambla, monta
- asamblato put together
- montato put together
- reunitransitive: to gather as a group
Russian собира́ть, собра́ть
- собира́ть (sobirátʹ)to put together
- собра́ть (sobrátʹ)to put together
- монти́ровать (montírovatʹ)to put together
- собира́ться (sobirátʹsja)transitive: to gather as a group
- собра́ться (sobrátʹsja)transitive: to gather as a group
Spanish ensamblar, montar
- ensamblarto put together
- montarto put together
- armarto put together
- juntartransitive: to gather as a group
- asemblartransitive: to gather as a group
Swedish sätta ihop, montera
- sätta ihopto put together
- monterato put together
- samlastransitive: to gather as a group
- sammankallastransitive: to gather as a group
- assembleracomputing: to translate from assembly language to machine code
Tamil கூடு
- கூடு (kūṭu)transitive: to gather as a group
Thai รวมตัว
- รวมตัวtransitive: to gather as a group
Vietnamese tập hợp
- tập hợpto put together
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Cite this entry
assemble. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/assemble
“assemble.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/assemble. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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