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The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

assemble

SYLLABICATION:	as·sem·ble
PRONUNCIATION:	-smbl
VERB:	Inflected forms: as·sem·bled, as·sem·bling, as·sem·bles
TRANSITIVE VERB:	1. To bring or call together into a group or whole: assembled the jury. 2. To fit together the parts or pieces of: assemble a machine; assemble data.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:	To gather together; congregate. See synonyms at gather.
ETYMOLOGY:	Middle English assemblen, from Old French assembler, from Vulgar Latin ^*assimulre : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin simul, together; see sem-¹ in Appendix I.


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