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assemblage (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
c. 1704, from French assemblage "gathering, assemblage," from assembler (see assemble). Earlier English words in the same sense include assemblement, assemblance (both late 15c.).
assemble (v.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
early 14c., transitive and intransitive, from Old French assembler "come together, join, unite; gather" (11c.), from Latin assimulare "to make like, liken, compare; copy, imitate; feign, pretend," later "to gather together," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + simulare "to make like" (see simulation). In Middle English and in Old French it also was a euphemism for "to couple sexually." Meaning "to put parts together" in manufacturing is from 1852. Related: Assembled; assembling. Assemble together is redundant.
assembly (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
c. 1300, "a gathering of persons, a group gathered for some purpose," from Old French as(s)emblee "assembly, gathering; union, marriage," noun use of fem. past participle of assembler "to assemble" (see assemble). Meaning "gathering together" is recorded from early 15c.; that of "act of assembling parts or objects" is from 1914, as is assembly line. School sense is recorded from 1932.
disassemble (v.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1610s, "to disperse;" see dis- + assemble. Meaning "to take apart" is from 1922. Related: Disassembled; disassembling; disassembly.
preassembly (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1921, from pre- + assembly.
re-assemble (v.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
also also reassemble, late 15c., from re- + assemble. Related: Reassembled; reassembling; reassembler; reassembly.
thalassemia (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
from thalasso- "sea" + haima "blood" (see -emia).