Definition of assemble
- They assembled a team of experts to solve the problem.
- assemble a new bicycle
- The club assembles once a month.
We'll need to assemble a list of songs for the concert.
She assembled all of her old photos into three albums.
Hundreds of notes and letters were assembled into a book.
A team of scientists was assembled to study the problem.
The U.S. Constitution gives people the right to assemble peacefully.
A crowd had assembled in front of the courthouse during the trial.
After dinner, the men would assemble in the living room to watch the game on TV.
The club assembles once a month to discuss upcoming activities.
Their father helped them assemble their new bicycles in the garage.
The cars are assembled on an assembly line.
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First Known Use: 13th century
in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1
See Words from the same yearbuild, confect, construct, erect, fabricate, make, make up, piece, put up, raise, rear, set up;
demount, disassemble, dismantle, dismember, knock down, strike, take down, tear down;
demolish, destroy, devastate, flatten, level, pull down, pulverize, raze, ruin, ruinate, shatter, smash, wreck;
carpenter, fashion, forge, frame, hammer, handcraft, manufacture, mold, produce, shape;
begin, coin, create, generate, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, invent, originate;
constitute, establish, father, found, institute, organize;
conceive, concoct, contrive, cook (up), design, devise, imagine, think (up);
reassemble, rebuild, reconstruct, redevelop, retrofit;
put together;
: to collect (things) or gather (people) into one place or group
: to meet together in one place
: to connect or put together the parts of (something, such as a toy or machine)
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