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assembleassemble /əˈsɛmbəl/ ●●○ AWL verb ETYMOLOGYassembleOrigin: 1200-1300 Old French assembler, from Latin ad- to + simul together VERB TABLEassemble |
Present | I, you, we, they | assemble | | he, she, it | assembles | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | assembled | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have assembled | | he, she, it | has assembled | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had assembled | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will assemble | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have assembled |
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Present | I | am assembling | | he, she, it | is assembling | | you, we, they | are assembling | Past | I, he, she, it | was assembling | | you, we, they | were assembling | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been assembling | | he, she, it | has been assembling | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been assembling | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be assembling | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been assembling |
THESAURUSsee somebody at an arranged place► meet to come to the same place as someone else because you have arranged to find him or her there: We’re going to meet at 11:00. I’ll meet you guys downtown at 7:00. ► get together informal to meet people, especially friends and family, to spend time together: We all got together at my house for a cookout. ► gather if people gather somewhere they all come to the same place to do or see something: Fans have started to gather outside the stadium. ► assemble formal to gather, especially in an organized way: If the fire alarm sounds, please assemble in the parking lot and report to your manager. ► come together if people come together, they meet because they all share a purpose: People came together from miles away to attend his funeral. ► congregate to gather. Used especially about a large number of people who gather in one place: A group of protesters had congregated outside. ► convene formal to come together for a formal meeting, or to ask people to do this: The committee will convene again in two weeks. ► run into/bump into informal to meet someone you know when you are doing something else: I ran into Theo at the grocery store last night. make something► build to make something, especially a building or something large: Airport planners want to build another runway. A small bird had built a nest in the tree. ► construct formal to build something large such as a building, bridge, etc.: There are plans to construct a new library. ► put up informal to build something, especially a structure such as a wall, fence, or building: They’re putting up a new mosque in the center of town. ► erect formal to build a large or important structure or building: A new cathedral was erected two years after the fire. ► assemble to put all the parts of something such as a machine or a piece of furniture together: We have to assemble the desk ourselves. 1 [intransitive] if a group of people assemble in one place, they all go there together SYN gather: Protesters started to assemble around 7 a.m.► see thesaurus at meet12[transitive] to gather a large number of things or people together in one place or for one purpose: He assembled a powerful team of lawyers.3[transitive] to put all the parts of something together: It was easy to assemble the bookcase myself.► see thesaurus at build1 [Origin: 1200–1300 Old French assembler, from Latin ad- to + simul together] |