assemble

Meaning

  1. (transitive) To put together.
  2. (ergative) To gather as a group.
  3. To translate from assembly language to machine code.

Frequency

C1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/əˈsɛmbl̩/
Etymology

In summary

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.

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