assemble

See also assemblé

English

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From Middle English assemblen, from Old French assembler (“to assemble”), from Medieval Latin assimulare (“to bring together”), from ad- + simul (“together”), from Proto-Indo-European *sōm-, *som- (“together”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one, whole”). Cognate with Old English samnian (“to bring together, assemble”). More at sam.

Verb

assemble (third-person singular simple present assembles, present participle assembling, simple past and past participle assembled)

1. (transitive) To put together.

   He assembled the model ship.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To gather as a group.

   The parents assembled in the school hall.

   • Milton

     Thither he assembled all his train.

   • Bible, 1 Kings viii. 2

     All the men of Israel assembled themselves.

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

Translations

to put together

• Bulgarian: сглобявам (bg) (sglobjavam), монтирам (bg) (montiram)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 收集 (cmn) (shōují), 組合 (cmn), 组合 (cmn) (zǔhé), 聚集 (cmn) (jùjí)

• Dutch: in elkaar zetten
• Finnish: koota (fi)
• French: assembler (fr), rassembler (fr)
• German: zusammensetzen (de), versammeln (de)
• Hebrew: אסף (he) (asáf)
• Hungarian: összerak (hu), összeállít (hu), összeszerel (hu)

• Italian: assemblare (it), montare (it), mettere insieme
• Japanese: 集める (ja) (あつめる, atsumeru), 組み立てる (ja) (くみたてる, kumitateru)
• Persian: سر هم کردن (fa) (sar-e-ham kardan)
• Polish: montować
• Russian: собирать (ru) (sobirát') impf., собрать (ru) (sobrát') pf., монтировать (ru) (montírovat')
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: са̀ставити (sh)

  Roman: sàstaviti (sh)

• Spanish: ensamblar (es), construir (es), montar (es)
• Swedish: sätta ihop (sv), montera (sv)

to gather as a group

• Bulgarian: свиквам (bg) (svikvam), събирам се (bg) (sǎbiram se)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聚集 (cmn) (jùjí)

• Czech: shromáždit se
• Dutch: samenkomen, zich verzamelen
• Finnish: kokoontua (fi)
• French: se rassembler (fr)
• German: sich versammeln (de), zusammenkommen (de)
• Hebrew: התאסף (he) (hit'aséf), כנס (he) (kanás)

• Hungarian: összegyűlik (hu), egybegyűlik (hu)
• Icelandic: flykkjast (is)
• Italian: riunire (it), riunirsi (it), adunare (it), adunarsi (it),
• Japanese: 集まる (ja) (あつまる, atsumaru)
• Persian: جمع شدن (fa) (jam' šodan), گرد هم آمدن (fa) (gerd-e-ham âmadan)
• Polish: zbierać się (pl), gromadzić się (pl)
• Russian: собираться (ru) (sobirát'sja) impf., собраться (ru) (sobrát'sja) pf.
• Spanish: reunir (es), juntar (es)
• Swedish: samlas (sv), sammankallas (sv)

computing: to translate from assembly language to machine code

• Icelandic: smala (is)

• Swedish: assemblera (sv)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: assembler (1), se rassembler (2)
• Nahuatl: centalia
• Serbo-Croatian: sklopiti, montirati

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French

Verb

assemble

1. first-person singular present indicative of assembler
2. third-person singular present indicative of assembler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of assembler
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of assembler
5. second-person singular imperative of assembler