different between assemblage vs gathering

English

Etymology

From French assemblage.

Noun

assemblage (countable and uncountable, plural assemblages)

1. The process of assembling or bringing together.

2. A collection of things which have been gathered together or assembled.
3. A gathering of people.
   • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.

4. (art) A visual art form similar to collage, which combines two-dimensional and three-dimensional, often found, elements into works of art.
5. (archaeology) A group of different artifacts found in association with one another.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• collage

Further reading

• assemblage (art) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Etymology

From French assemblage.

Noun

assemblage c (singular definite assemblagen, plural indefinite assemblager)

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Declension

Further reading

• “assemblage” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

assembler +? -age

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.s??.bla?/

Noun

assemblage m (plural assemblages)

1. assemblage, gathering, assembly (process of assembling; result of this action)
2. (carpentry) jointing (act of making a joint)
3. (carpentry) joint
4. (computing) a phase in compilation where an assembly language is translated into a binary file
5. (viticulture) cuvée (wine produced from a mixture of several grape varieties)
6. (archaeology) assemblage (group of different artifacts found in association with one another)
7. (bioinformatics) sequence assembly (aligning and merging of DNA fragments to reconstruct a sequence)
8. (bioinformatics) genome assembly (process of reassembling DNA sequences)
9. (cartography) juxtaposition of several maps or cuttings to create a larger map

Derived terms

• langage d'assemblage

Further reading

• “assemblage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æ.ð?.???/

Etymology 1

From Middle English gadering, from Old English gaderung (“gathering, assembly”), equivalent to gather +? -ing (verbal noun ending).

Noun

gathering (plural gatherings)

1. A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.

2. A group of people or things.

3. (bookbinding) A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.

4. A charitable contribution; a collection.
5. (medicine) A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.

Translations

Further reading

• gathering on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Section (bookbinding) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Middle English gaderynge, equivalent to gather +? -ing (present participle ending).

Verb

gathering

1. present participle of gather

Adjective

gathering (not comparable)

1. That gathers together

Derived terms

• data-gathering
• evidence-gathering

Anagrams

• nightgear