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ASSEMBLE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Create by putting components or members together

Example:

They set up a committee

Synonyms:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

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

join (cause to become joined or linked)

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

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

comfit; confect; confection (make into a confection)

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)

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

Example:

Let's gather in the dining room

Synonyms:

assemble; foregather; forgather; gather; meet

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

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"):

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)

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

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

Example:

gather the close family members

Synonyms:

assemble; gather; get together

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

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)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Tiny protein molecules assemble to form structures that are scaled up and can be as long as tendons.

(New technique helps engineer water filters, human tissues, National Science Foundation)

It was at Sir William Lucas's, where a large party were assembled.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

When they were all assembled together, he said to the huntsman: “As you are so clever, you shall sit by me.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Fairen-Jimenez from the Cambridge Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology leads research into advanced materials, with a particular focus on MOFs: self-assembling 3D compounds made of metallic and organic building blocks connected together.

(Nanoparticles used to transport anti-cancer agent to cells, University of Cambridge)

Our eyes constantly send bits of information about the world around us to our brains where the information is assembled into objects we recognize.

(Eye cells may use math to detect motion, NIH)

The filter system consists of a two-stage process that can be easily assembled with local material in water barrels.

(Soil-based filter bricks clean up water for Moroccan farmers, SciDev.Net)

Researchers believe that Alzheimer’s and similar diseases advance when certain proteins in the brain assemble themselves into long fibers that accumulate and ultimately strangle nerve cells in the brain.

(Subtracting Gravity from Alzheimer's, NASA)

Drs. Erkan Karakas and Hiro Furukawa at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory set out to determine the structure of the assembled NMDA receptor ion channel in order to better understand how the receptor functions.

(Structure of receptor involved in brain disorders, NIH)

PBPs participate in the terminal stages of assembling the bacterial cell wall, and in reshaping the cell wall during cell division.

(Benethamine Penicillin, NCI Thesaurus)

The assembled cyclodextrin framework possesses a hydrophobic internal cavity which can include various small molecules and a peripheral structure containing a large number of hydroxyl groups making the molecule water soluble.

(Beta-methyl Cyclodextrin, NCI Thesaurus)