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assemble

verb
/əˈsɛm.bəl/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sem-h₂-lo- Proto-Italic *semalis Latin similis Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin simulō Medieval Latin assimulōder. Old French assemblerbor. Middle English assemblen English assemble 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.

  1. derived from *sem-✻
  2. derived from assimulo
  3. derived from assembler
  4. inherited from assemblen

Definitions

  1. To put together.

    • He assembled the model ship.
    • The handman reads copy and assembles type by hand, including straight composition, tables and display.
    • 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.

  2. To gather as a group.

    • The parents assembled in the school hall.
    • Thither he assembled all his train.
    • All the men of Israel assembled themselves.

  3. To translate from assembly language to machine code.

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Derived

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

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at assemble. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at assemble. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at assemble

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA