assemble

Other forms of assemble

past tense

assembled·

present participle

assembling·

third person

assembles·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about assemble

What does assemble mean?

assemble means "create by putting components or members together". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in assemble?

assemble has 3 syllables: as-sem-ble. The stress falls on "sem". In IPA it is /əˈsɛmbəl/.

What is another word for assemble?

Close synonyms include piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of assemble?

The recorded antonyms are disassemble.

Is assemble a common word?

assemble is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with assemble?

3 words rhyme with assemble. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.