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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Assemble \As*sem"ble\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Assembled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Assembling}.] [F. assembler, fr. LL. assimulare to bring together to collect; L. ad + simul together; akin to similis like, Gr. ? at the same time, and E. same. Cf. {Assimilate}, {Same}.]
1. To collect into one place or body; to bring or call together; to convene; to congregate.
Thither he assembled all his train. --Milton.
All the men of Israel assembled themselves. --1 Kings viii. 2.
2. To collect and put together the parts of; as, to assemble a bicycle, watch, gun, or other manufactured article. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
assembled \assembled\ adjective
1. brought together into a group or crowd. the assembled letters in my office
Syn: accumulated, collected, congregate, massed. [WordNet 1.5]
2. 1 formed by fitting or joining components together.
Syn: built(prenominal), made-up. [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
assembled
adjective
1: brought together into a group or crowd; "the accumulated letters in my office" [syn: {accumulated}, {amassed}, {collected}, {congregate}, {massed}]
2: formed by fitting or joining components together [syn: {built(a)}, {made-up}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
101 Moby Thesaurus words for "assembled": accumulated, agglomerate, aggregate, allied, amassed, associated, banded together, bound, bracketed, built, bunched, bundled, cast, clumped, clustered, collected, combined, conglomerate, congregate, congregated, conjoined, connected, constructed, copulate, coupled, crafted, created, cumulate, custom, custom-built, custom-made, extracted, fabricated, fascicled, fasciculated, fashioned, forged, formed, gathered, glomerate, grown, hand-in-glove, hand-in-hand, handcrafted, handmade, harvested, heaped, homemade, homespun, in session, incorporated, integrated, intimate, joined, joint, knotted, leagued, linked, lumped, machine-made, machined, made, made to order, man-made, manufactured, massed, matched, mated, meeting, merged, milled, mined, molded, packaged, paired, piled, prefab, prefabricated, processed, put together, raised, ready-for-wear, ready-formed, ready-made, ready-prepared, ready-to-wear, refined, shaped, smelted, spliced, stacked, tied, undivided, united, unseparated, wedded, well-built, well-constructed, well-made, wrapped up, yoked
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