A Topical Dictionary: Search for assemblage

Dictionary Results For "assemblage" [?]/[OPML]

Ads By Google

Wiktionary Articles [RSS] - [GNU, www.Wiktionary.org]

English

Etymology

From #French|assemblage.

Noun

A collection of things which have been gathered together or assembled.
:1749 But scarce was supper well over, before a change so incredible was wrought in me, such violent, yet pleasingly irksome sensations took possession of me that I scarce knew how to contain myself; the smart of the lashes was now converted into such a prickly heat, such fiery tinglings, as made me sigh, squeeze my thighs together, shift and wriggle about my seat, with a furious restlessness; whilst these itching ardours, thus excited in those parts on which the storm of discipline had principally fallen, detached legions of burning, subtile, stimulating spirits, to their opposite spot and centre of assemblage, where their titillation raged so furiously, that I was even stinging mad with them. — John Cleland, 1''

----

French

Etymology

assembler#French|assembler + -age

Noun

fa:assemblage fr:assemblage io:assemblage it:assemblage hu:assemblage ru:assemblage fi:assemblage ta:assemblage te:assemblage vi:assemblage

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Assemblage \As*sem"blage\, n. [Cf. F. assemblage. See
Assemble.]
1. The act of assembling, or the state of being assembled;
association.
[1913 Webster]

In sweet assemblage every blooming grace. --Fenton.
[1913 Webster]

2. A collection of individuals, or of individuals, or of
particular things; as, a political assemblage; an
assemblage of ideas.
[1913 Webster]

Syn: Company; group; collection; concourse; gathering;
meeting; convention.

Usage: Assemblage, Assembly. An assembly consists only of
persons; an assemblage may be composed of things as
well as persons, as, an assemblage of incoherent
objects. Nor is every assemblage of persons an
assembly; since the latter term denotes a body who
have met, and are acting, in concert for some common
end, such as to hear, to deliberate, to unite in
music, dancing, etc. An assemblage of skaters on a
lake, or of horse jockeys at a race course, is not an
assembly, but might be turned into one by collecting
into a body with a view to discuss and decide as to
some object of common interest.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet assemblage
n 1: a group of persons together in one place [syn: gathering]
2: a system of components assembled together for a particular
purpose [syn: hookup]
3: the social act of assembling; "they demanded the right of
assembly" [syn: assembly, gathering] [ant: dismantling]
4: several things grouped together or considered as a whole
[syn: collection, aggregation, accumulation]

Moby Dictionary
A to Z , A to izzard , Bund , Rochdale cooperative , aggregate , all ,
all and sundry , all sorts , alliance , alpha and omega , assembly ,
assembly line , assembly-line production , association , assortment ,
axis , band , be-all , be-all and end-all , beginning and end , bloc ,
body , broad spectrum , building , buildup , coalition , college ,
combination , combine , common market , complement , composition ,
compound , confederacy , confederation , conglomeration , constitution ,
construction , consumer cooperative , cooperative ,
cooperative society , corps , council , credit union , customs union ,
each and every , economic community , embodiment , everything ,
fabrication , fashioning , federation , formation , free trade area ,
gallimaufry , gang , getup , group , grouping , hash , hodgepodge ,
hotchpot , hotchpotch , incorporation , jumble , junction , league ,
length and breadth , machine , magpie , make , makeup , mash , medley ,
melange , mess , mingle-mangle , miscellany , mishmash , mix , mixed bag ,
mixture , mob , odds and ends , olio , olla podrida , omnium-gatherum ,
one and all , organization , package , package deal , partnership ,
pasticcio , pastiche , patchwork , piecing together ,
political machine , potpourri , production line , putting together ,
ring , salad , salmagundi , sauce , scramble , set , setup , shaping ,
society , stew , structure , structuring , syneresis , synthesis ,
the corpus , the ensemble , the entirety , the lot , the whole ,
the whole range , union , what you will