assemblage

English

An assemblage (sense 5)

Etymology

Borrowed from French assemblage. By surface analysis, assemble +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈsɛmblɪd͡ʒ/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

assemblage (countable and uncountable, plural assemblages)

1. The process of assembling or bringing together.

   the assemblage of words and recordings

2. A collection of things which have been gathered together or assembled.
   • 1994 January 18, Glen Collins, “Bells of Bronze Age Show the Complexity Of Old China's Music”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 May 2015, Arts‎^[2]:

     The tomb contained percussion, string and wind instruments in a remarkable state of preservation, including the largest assemblage of Bronze Age bells ever recovered. Discovered in 1977, near the city of Suizhou in Hubei Province in central China, the tomb, from the fifth century B.C., has long been considered "one of the most significant archeological discoveries of the 20th century," said Peter A. Young, editor in chief of the magazine.

3. A gathering of people.
   • 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:

     But scarce was supper well over, before a change so incredible was wrought in me, such violent, yet pleasingly irksome sensations took possession of me that I scarce knew how to contain myself; the smart of the lashes was now converted into such a prickly heat, such fiery tinglings, as made me sigh, squeeze my thighs together, shift and wriggle about my seat, with a furious restlessness; whilst these itching ardours, thus excited in those parts on which the storm of discipline had principally fallen, detached legions of burning, subtile, stimulating spirits, to their opposite spot and centre of assemblage, where their titillation raged so furiously, that I was even stinging mad with them.

   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.

4. (archaeology) A group of different artifacts found in association with one another.
5. (art) A visual art form similar to collage, which combines two-dimensional and three-dimensional, often found, elements into works of art.

Derived terms

• assemblage point
• assemblage theory
• assemblagist
• faunal assemblage
• ichnoassemblage
• interassemblage
• noun of assemblage
• palynoassemblage
• reassemblage
• subassemblage
• superassemblage

 

Translations

process of assembling

• French: assemblage (fr) m
• Macedonian: склопу́вање n (sklopúvanje), соби́рање n (sobíranje), се́вкупност f (sévkupnost)
• Polish: montaż (pl) m

collection of things

• Finnish: kokoelma (fi)
• French: assemblage (fr) m
• Indonesian: himpunan (id) (archeology, anthropology), gabungan (id), kawanan (id)
• Macedonian: зби́рка f (zbírka)
• Polish: zbiorowisko (pl) n

art form

• Finnish: assemblaasi
• Malay: himpunan (ms), asemblaj
• Polish: asamblaż (pl) m, assemblage (pl) m

group of artifacts

• French: assemblage (fr) m
• Indonesian: himpunan (id)
• Malay: himpunan (ms), asemblaj

See also

• collage

Further reading

• assemblage (art) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French assemblage.

Noun

assemblage c (singular definite assemblagen, plural indefinite assemblager)

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Declension

Declension of assemblage

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	assemblage	assemblagen	assemblager	assemblagerne
genitive	assemblages	assemblagens	assemblagers	assemblagernes

Further reading

• “assemblage” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French assemblage, from Middle French assemblafe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɑ.sɛmˈblaː.ʒə/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: as‧sem‧bla‧ge
• Rhymes: -aːʒə

Noun

assemblage f (plural assemblages)

1. assembly (act or process of assembling, putting together)

Derived terms

• assemblagehal

 

Related terms

• assemblee
• assembleren

 

French

Etymology

From assembler +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.sɑ̃.blaʒ/

• Audio:

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Noun

assemblage m (plural assemblages)

1. assemblage, gathering, assembly (process of assembling; result of this action)
2. (carpentry) jointing (act of making a joint)
3. (carpentry) joint
4. (computing) a phase in compilation where an assembly language is translated into a binary file
5. (viticulture) cuvée (wine produced from a mixture of several grape varieties)
6. (archaeology) assemblage (group of different artifacts found in association with one another)
7. (bioinformatics) sequence assembly (aligning and merging of DNA fragments to reconstruct a sequence)
8. (bioinformatics) genome assembly (process of reassembling DNA sequences)
9. (cartography) juxtaposition of several maps or cuttings to create a larger map

Derived terms

• langage d’assemblage

Further reading

• “assemblage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French assemblage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.samˈblaʂ/
• Rhymes: -aʂ
• Syllabification: a‧ssem‧blage

Noun

assemblage m inan

1. Alternative spelling of asamblaż

Declension

Declension of assemblage

	singular	plural
nominative	assemblage	assemblage'e
genitive	assemblage'u	assemblage'ów/assemblage'y
dative	assemblage'owi	assemblage'om
accusative	assemblage	assemblage'e
instrumental	assemblage'em	assemblage'ami
locative	assemblage'u	assemblage'ach
vocative	assemblage'u	assemblage'e

Further reading

• assemblage in Polish dictionaries at PWN