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assembly (iou)



assembly noun. ME.
[Old French asemblee (mod. assemblee) use as noun of fem. pa. pple of asembler ASSEMBLE verb: see -Y5.]
Gathering or putting together; the state of being collected or brought together. ME.
J. R. Green A Triennial Bill enforced the assembly of the Houses every three years. Encyclopedia Britannica After final assembly it is necessary to test the completed equipment.
A gathering of people; a concourse, a throng. ME.
UNLAWFUL assembly.
F. Fitzgerald To forbid not only demonstrations but assemblies of over seven people.
b. spec. A deliberative body; a legislative council. LME.
National Assembly: see NATIONAL adjective.
J. Knox The General Assembly of the Church..holden in December after the Queen's Arrival. A. J. P. Taylor Chamberlain, Stresemann, and Briand always attended the meetings of the League assembly at Geneva.
c. spec. A gathering (esp. public) for social purposes or recreation. L16.
P. V. White Mr Bright, the dancing instructor, who was experienced in conducting Assemblies and such like.
d. A gathering (esp. of a school) for religious worship; a congregation. E17.
Shakespeare As You Like It Here we have no temple but the wood, no assembly but horn-beasts. E. Blishen At assembly the head announced that it was going to be a fine year.
A hostile encounter, an attack. LME-M16.
A collection of objects; esp. a number of component pieces fitted together to form a whole; a device consisting of numerous parts. M17.
D. H. Lawrence The whole is a strange assembly of apparently incongruous parts. E. Waugh A wireless set had now been added to Nanny Hawkins' small assembly of pleasures. L. Deighton With each pull the tail assembly of Sweet's Lancaster rose higher until it was strung up..suspended from a buttress.
A military call to assemble, given by drum or bugle. E18.
Comb.: assembly language Computing a low-level language employing mnemonic symbols which correspond exactly to groups of machine instructions; assembly line a group of machines and workers progressively assembling some product; assemblyman a (male) member of a legislative assembly; assembly program Computing = ASSEMBLER (a); assembly room (a) a public room in which social functions are held (usu. in pl.); (b) = assembly shop below; assembly shop a place where a machine or machine parts are assembled.