ASSEMBLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does assemble mean? 

• ASSEMBLE (verb)
  The verb ASSEMBLE has 3 senses:

1. create by putting components or members together

2. collect in one place

3. get people together

  Familiarity information: ASSEMBLE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASSEMBLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they assemble    ... he / she / it assembles   
Past simple: assembled   
Past participle: assembled   
-ing form: assembling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Create by putting components or members together

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

assemble; piece; put together; set up; tack; tack together

Context example:

They set up a committee

Hypernyms (to "assemble" is one way to...):

create; make (make or cause to be or to become)

join (cause to become joined or linked)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "assemble"):

confuse; jumble; mix up (assemble without order or sense)

reassemble (assemble once again, after taking something apart)

configure (set up for a particular purpose)

compound (create by mixing or combining)

rig up (erect or construct, especially as a temporary measure)

comfit; confect; confection (make into a confection)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Antonym:

disassemble (take apart into its constituent pieces)

Derivation:

assemblage (a system of components assembled together for a particular purpose)

assemblage (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Collect in one place

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

assemble; foregather; forgather; gather; meet

Context example:

Let's gather in the dining room

Hypernyms (to "assemble" is one way to...):

interact (act together or towards others or with others)

Verb group:

come across; encounter; meet; run across; run into; see (come together)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "assemble"):

hive (move together in a hive or as if in a hive)

club (gather and spend time together)

caucus (meet to select a candidate or promote a policy)

turn out (come and gather for a public event)

converge (move or draw together at a certain location)

crowd; crowd together (to gather together in large numbers)

clump; cluster; constellate; flock (come together as in a cluster or flock)

convene (meet formally)

fort; fort up (gather in, or as if in, a fort, as for protection or defense)

congregate (come together, usually for a purpose)

meet (meet by design; be present at the arrival of)

aggroup; group (form a group or group together)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

The crowds assemble in the streets

Derivation:

assemblage (the social act of assembling)

assemblage (a group of persons together in one place)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Get people together

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

assemble; gather; get together

Context example:

gather the close family members

Cause:

assemble; foregather; forgather; gather; meet (collect in one place)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "assemble"):

make (form by assembling individuals or constituents)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They want to assemble the prisoners

Derivation:

assemblage (the social act of assembling)

assemblage (a group of persons together in one place)

 Context examples 

It was assembled from 82 snapshots representing a whopping 16.2 hours of Spitzer observing time.

(The 'Serpent' star-forming cloud hatches new stars, NASA)

The researchers altered the chemical composition of the perovskite layers by adding potassium iodide to perovskite inks, which then self-assemble into thin films.

(Potassium gives perovskite-based solar cells an efficiency boost, University of Cambridge)

A team led by Dr. Samuel Wilson at NIH’s National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) set out to determine how DNA polymerase inserts damaged nucleotides when assembling DNA strands.

(Structural Snapshots of Damaged DNA, NIH)

The discovery provides new details about the emergence of large galaxies and the role that dark matter plays in assembling the most massive structures in the universe.

(Massive primordial galaxies found in ‘halo’ of dark matter, National Science Foundation)

They found that the signal, generated by ribonucleic acid (RNA), helps viral proteins to overcome an 'engineering problem', assembling them into in a particular geometric pattern.

(Scientists A Step Closer to Drug Treatment for Hepatitis B, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Each sub-pathway of BER relies on the formation of protein complexes that assemble at the site of the DNA lesion and facilitate repair in a coordinated fashion.

(Base Excision Repair Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Actin can quickly assemble into long microfilament polymers.

(Actin, NCI Thesaurus)

Composed of more than 1,000 images taken during the 2019 Thanksgiving holiday and carefully assembled over the ensuing months, the composite contains 1.8 billion pixels of Martian landscape.

(Curiosity Mars Rover Snaps Its Highest-Resolution Panorama Yet, NASA)

The assemblies essentially function as genomic maps, and are constructed by sequencing short fragments of DNA, then assembling them in the proper order.

(Study reveals surprising amount of gene flow among butterfly species, National Science Foundation)

When the vaccine is injected into muscle, cells read the genes and make Zika proteins, which self-assemble into virus-like particles.

(DNA vaccines protect monkeys against Zika virus, NIH)