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ASSEMBLING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of gathering something together
Synonyms:
aggregation; assembling; collecting; collection
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("assembling" is a kind of...):
grouping (the activity of putting things together in groups)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "assembling"):
agglomeration (the act of collecting in a mass; the act of agglomerating)
collation (assembling in proper numerical or logical sequence)
compilation; compiling (the act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list))
gather; gathering (the act of gathering something)
bottle collection (the activity of collecting bottles)
conchology; shell collecting (the collection and study of mollusc shells)
coin collecting; coin collection; numismatics; numismatology (the collection and study of money (and coins in particular))
pickup (the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places)
philately; stamp collecting; stamp collection (the collection and study of postage stamps)
tax collection (the collection of taxes)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb assemble
Context examples:
A moment, and I occupy my place in the Cathedral, where we all went together, every Sunday morning, assembling first at school for that purpose.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
They found that the signal, generated by ribonucleic acid (RNA), helps viral proteins to overcome an 'engineering problem', assembling them into in a particular geometric pattern.
(Scientists A Step Closer to Drug Treatment for Hepatitis B, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A team led by Dr. Samuel Wilson at NIH’s National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) set out to determine how DNA polymerase inserts damaged nucleotides when assembling DNA strands.
(Structural Snapshots of Damaged DNA, NIH)
The discovery provides new details about the emergence of large galaxies and the role that dark matter plays in assembling the most massive structures in the universe.
(Massive primordial galaxies found in ‘halo’ of dark matter, National Science Foundation)
The assemblies essentially function as genomic maps, and are constructed by sequencing short fragments of DNA, then assembling them in the proper order.
(Study reveals surprising amount of gene flow among butterfly species, National Science Foundation)
Before this, assembling 10 genes to insert into a new line would be difficult or impossible, but this technology basically stabilizes the stack and makes for results that are more stable and much easier to predict.
(Innovative Approach to Breeding Could Mean Higher Yields and Better Crops, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
You talked of expected horrors in London—and instead of instantly conceiving, as any rational creature would have done, that such words could relate only to a circulating library, she immediately pictured to herself a mob of three thousand men assembling in St. George's Fields, the Bank attacked, the Tower threatened, the streets of London flowing with blood, a detachment of the Twelfth Light Dragoons (the hopes of the nation) called up from Northampton to quell the insurgents, and the gallant Captain Frederick Tilney, in the moment of charging at the head of his troop, knocked off his horse by a brickbat from an upper window.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
To modernize its military, in 2018, Hungary licensed Czech firearm technology and started assembling firearms in Kiskunfélegyháza, then agreed with Airbus to open a helicopter parts factory as a joint venture in Gyula.
(Hungarian state-owned enterprise acquires Hirtenberger Defence Group, Wikinews)
In March 2017, using a combination of genetically-modified mouse ESCs and TSCs, together with a 3D ‘jelly’ scaffold known as an extracellular matrix, the researchers were able to grow a structure capable of assembling itself and whose development and architecture very closely resembled the natural embryo.
(Scientists generate key life event in artificial mouse ‘embryo’ created from stem cells, University of Cambridge)
“That is hardly Fanny's idea of a family assembling,” said Edmund.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
