Assembly

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: As=sem=bly

CIDE DICTIONARY

Assembly, n. [F. assemblée, fr. assembler. See Assemble.].

•  A company of persons collected together in one place, and usually for some common purpose, esp. for deliberation and legislation, for worship, or for social entertainment.  [1913 Webster]
•  A collection of inanimate objects.  Howell.  [1913 Webster]
•  A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.  [1913 Webster]

  " In some of the United States, the legislature, or the popular branch of it, is called the Assembly, or the General Assembly. In the Presbyterian Church, the General Assembly is the highest ecclesiastical tribunal, composed of ministers and ruling elders delegated from each presbytery; as, the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, or of Scotland."  [1913 Webster]

Assembly room, a room in which persons assemble, especially for dancing. -- Unlawful assembly (Law), a meeting of three or more persons on a common plan, in such a way as to cause a reasonable apprehension that they will disturb the peace tumultuously. -- Westminster Assembly, a convocation, consisting chiefly of divines, which, by act of Parliament, assembled July 1, 1643, and remained in session some years. It framed the “Confession of Faith,” the “Larger Catechism,” and the “Shorter Catechism,” which are still received as authority by Presbyterians, and are substantially accepted by Congregationalists.

Syn. -- See Assemblage.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Assembly, n. (pl. -ies)
1 the act or an instance of assembling or gathering together.
2 a a group of persons gathered together, esp. as a deliberative body or a legislative council. b a gathering of the entire members of a school.
3 the assembling of a machine or structure or its parts.
4 Mil. a call to assemble, given by drum or bugle.

Idiom

assembly language Computing the low-level symbolic code converted by an assembler. assembly line machinery arranged in stages by which a product is progressively assembled. assembly room (or shop) a place where a machine or its components are assembled. assembly rooms public rooms in which meetings or social functions are held.

Etymology

ME f. OF asemblee fem. past part. of asembler: see ASSEMBLE

THESAURUS

Assembly

British Cabinet, Sanhedrin, US Cabinet, advisory body, architecture, assemblage, assemblee, assembly line, assembly-line production, assignation, association, at home, ball, bench, bicameral legislature, board, board of aldermen, body, body of advisers, borough council, brain trust, brawl, brethren, building, buildup, cabinet, call-up, camarilla, canvass, casting, caucus, census, chamber, chamber of deputies, churchgoers, circle, city board, city council, class, collection, colligation, collocation, colloquium, combination, commission, committee, common council, company, comparison, composition, compound, conclave, concourse, concurrence, conference, confluence, conflux, congregation, congress, connection, constitution, construction, consultative assembly, conventicle, convention, convergence, conversion, convocation, corralling, council, council fire, council of ministers, council of state, council of war, county council, court, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, crowd, cultivation, dance, data-gathering, date, deliberative assembly, devising, diet, directory, divan, eisteddfod, elaboration, embodiment, erection, extraction, fabrication, fashioning, federal assembly, festivity, fete, flock, fold, forgathering, formation, forming, formulation, forum, framing, gathering, general assembly, get-together, getup, group, growing, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, horde, host, house of assembly, housewarming, incorporation, ingathering, inventory, junction, junta, juxtaposition, kitchen cabinet, laity, laymen, legislative assembly, legislative body, legislative chamber, legislature, levee, lower chamber, lower house, machining, make, makeup, making, manufacture, manufacturing, meet, meeting, milling, mining, minyan, mixture, mobilization, molding, multitude, muster, national assembly, nonclerics, nonordained persons, organization, panel, parish, parish council, parishioners, parliament, party, people, piecing together, plenum, prefabrication, preparation, privy council, processing, producing, production line, prom, provincial legislature, provincial parliament, putting together, quorum, raising, rally, reception, refining, rendezvous, representative town meeting, rodeo, roundup, seance, seculars, session, set-up, setup, shaping, sheep, shindig, sit-in, sitting, smelting, society, soiree, soviet, staff, state assembly, state legislature, structure, structuring, survey, symposium, syndicate, syneresis, synod, synthesis, throng, town meeting, tribunal, turnout, unicameral legislature, upper chamber, upper house, workmanship

ROGET THESAURUS

Assembly

Assemblage

N assemblage, collection, collocation, colligation, compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement, team, concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence, meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home, conversazione, assembly, congress, convention, conventicle, gemote, conclave, posse, posse comitatus, Noah's ark, miscellany, collectanea, museum, menagerie, museology, crowd, throng, group, flood, rush, deluge, rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe, crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party, swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove, atajo, bunch, drive, force, mulada, remuda, roundup, array, bevy, galaxy, corps, company, troop, troupe, task force, army, regiment, host, populousness, clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association, volley, shower, storm, cloud, group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil, set, batch, lot, pack, budget, assortment, bunch, parcel, packet, package, bundle, fascine, fasces, bale, seron, seroon, fagot, wisp, truss, tuft, shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, haycock, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook, accumulation, congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid, bing, drift, snowball, snowdrift, acervation, cumulation, glomeration, agglomeration, conglobation, conglomeration, conglomerate, coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta, quantity, collector, gatherer, whip, whipper in, assembled, closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous, as thick as hops, all of a heap, fasciculated cumulative, the plot thickens, acervatim, tibi seris tibi metis.

Council

N council, committee, subcommittee, comitia, court, chamber, cabinet, board, bench, staff, senate, senatus, parliament, chamber of deputies, directory, reichsrath, rigsdag, cortes, storthing, witenagemote, junta, divan, musnud, sanhedrim, classis, Amphictyonic council, duma, house of representatives, legislative assembly, legislative council, riksdag, volksraad, witan, caput, consistory, chapter, syndicate, court of appeal, board of control, board of works, vestry, county council, local board, audience chamber, council chamber, state chamber, cabinet council, privy council, cockpit, convocation, synod, congress, convention, diet, states-general, assembly, caucus, conclave, clique, conventicle, meeting, sitting, seance, conference, convention, exhibition, session, palaver, pourparler, durbar, house, quorum, council fire, powwow, primary, meeting, assemblage, member, senator, member of parliament, M, P, councilor, representative of the people, assemblyman, congressman, councilman, councilwoman, alderman, freeholder, senatorial, curule, congressional, parliamentary, legislative, law-making, regulatory, deliberative.

Laity

N laity, flock, fold, congregation, assembly, brethren, people, society, temporality, secularization, layman, civilian, parishioner, catechumen, secularist, secular, lay, laical, civil, temporal, profane.

Sociality

N sociality, sociability, sociableness, social intercourse, consociation, intercourse, intercommunity, consortship, companionship, comradeship, clubbism, esprit de corps, conviviality, good fellowship, good company, joviality, jollity, savoir vivre, festivity, festive board, merrymaking, loving cup, hospitality, heartiness, cheer, welcome, welcomeness, greeting, hearty welcome, hearty reception, warm reception, urbanity, familiarity, good fellow, jolly fellow, bon enfant, bawcock, social circle, family circle, circle of acquaintance, coterie, society, company, social gathering, social reunion, assembly, barbecue, bee, corn-husking, corn-shucking, house raising, barn raising, husking, husking-bee, infare, party, entertainment, reception, levee, at, home, conversazione, soiree, matin_ee, evening party, morning party, afternoon party, bridge party, garden party, surprise party, kettle, kettle drum, partie carr_ee, dish of tea, ridotto, rout, housewarming, ball, festival, smoker, smoker-party, sociable, stag party, hen party, tamasha, tea-party, tea-fight, (amusement), the feast of reason and the flow of soul, birthday party, Christmas party, New Year's Eve party, Thanksgiving Day Dinner, bonenkai, wedding reception, visiting, round of visits, call, morning call, interview, assignation, tryst, trysting place, appointment, club, sociable, companionable, clubbable, conversable, cosy, cosey, chatty, conversational, homiletical, convivial, festive, festal, jovial, jolly, hospitable, welcome, welcome as the roses in May, f=eted, entertained, free and easy, hall fellow well met, familiar, on visiting terms, acquainted, social, neighborly, international, gregarious, en famille, in the family circle, sans fa, arm in arm, a crowd is not company, be bright and jovial among your guests tonight, his worth is warrant for his welcome, let's be red with mirth, welcome the coming speed the parting guest.