• IPA: /əˈsɛmbl̩/

assemble (assembles, present participle assembling; past and past participle assembled)

1. (transitive) To put together.

   He assembled the model ship.

2. (ambitransitive) To gather as a group.

   The parents assembled in the school hall.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 5”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     Thither he assembled all his train.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, 1 Kings viii:2 ↗:

     All the men of Israel assembled themselves.

3. (computing) to translate from assembly language to machine code

• (to put together) build, construct, produce, put together; see also Thesaurus:build
• (to gather as a group) collect, begather; see also Thesaurus:assemble or Thesaurus:round up

• French: assembler, rassembler
• German: zusammensetzen, versammeln
• Italian: assemblare, montare, mettere insieme
• Portuguese: montar, juntar
• Russian: собира́ть
• Spanish: ensamblar, construir, montar

• French: rassembler, assembler, réunir
• German: versammeln, zusammenkommen
• Italian: riunire, riunirsi, adunare, adunarsi,
• Portuguese: reunir-se, juntar-se
• Russian: собира́ться
• Spanish: reunir, juntar