assemble

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ldoce_010_fas·sem·ble /əˈsembəl/ AWL verb

1 [intransitiveI, transitiveT] if you assemble a large number of people or things, or if they assemble, they are gathered together in one place, often for a particular purpose 集合，聚集

A large crowd had assembled outside the American embassy.

一大群人聚集在美国大使馆外。

He looked around at the assembled company (=all the people who had come there).

他环顾四周聚集的人群。

She had assembled a collection of her favourite songs.

她收集了一些自己最喜欢听的歌。

► see thesaurus at collect, meet →5 See picture of build 修建, construct 建造, assemble 组装, make 制作

2 [transitiveT]MAKE to put all the parts of something together 组装，装配

The aircraft will continue to be assembled in France.

飞机将继续在法国组装。

→4 See picture of 见图 assemble

Examples from the Corpus

assemble• On Friday morning, November 20, the team assembled.• I looked down onto the square, where a large crowd had assembled.• Ohio State's basketball team was considered one of the best ever assembled.• Our kits are very easy to assemble.• We will let you have the report as soon as we have assembled all the data.• A few children were assembling all the props on a table over by the far wall.• The apprentices worked in the shed where the new locomotives were assembled and the old ones repaired.• Protesters started to assemble around 7 a.m.• The men assembled for one last effort.• He tried the speech out on an assembled group of civil servants and lawyers.• Prisoners must assemble in the courtyard every morning for exercise.• Foreign diplomats and their wives had assembled in the Great Hall to meet the President.• When all the evidence is assembled, it will be clear that Michael is innocent.• A large crowd had assembled opposite the American embassy.• A group of angry parents had assembled outside the head teacher's office.• It was easy to assemble the bookcase myself.• The four inside stays are now being assembled, two are complete and the other two are well advanced.• Now that he was able to, he assembled what had happened and laid the facts before himself.• At times, you can leisurely assemble your document, writing and rewriting it one day and showing it the next.• It's one of those beds that you have to assemble yourself.

assembled company• He gazed at the assembled company.• I don't care to play out my silly games before the assembled company.• Mrs Mainwaring was supposed to make an appearance, which sent a chill throughout the assembled company.• When she was politely asked about her father's health her reply startled the assembled company.• He glanced at the assembled company as though surprised to see so many people.• Neither said a word to the assembled company, but at the door Eugénie turned and gave them her famous curtsy.• Here some of the assembled company sat watching the sun set in rosy Technicolor behind a jagged peak.• The assembled company was let loose on Edinburgh for the last time.

From Longman Business Dictionary

assembleas·sem·ble /əˈsembəl/ verb

1[transitiveT]MANUFACTURING to make a product by putting parts together

The factory will assemble GM pickup trucks for sale in the Chinese market.

2[transitiveT]FINANCE if a financial institution assembles a loan, it finds lenders who are willing to make part of the loan

It is attempting to assemble $1 billion of credit.

3[intransitiveI] if an organization assembles, it meets officially

The 12,000-member International Bar Association will assemble in New York City, Sept 1923.

Origin assemble

(1200-1300) Old French assembler, from Vulgar Latin assimulare, from Latin ad- “to” + simul “together”

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