different between assemblage vs tribe

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

Etymology

From Middle English tribe, tribu, from Old French tribu, from Latin tribus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?a?b/
• Rhymes: -a?b

Noun

tribe (plural tribes)

1. A socially, ethnically, or politically cohesive group of people.
2. (anthropology) A society larger than a band but smaller than a state.
3. (zoology) A group of apes who live and work together.
4. (taxonomy) A hierarchal rank between family and genus.
5. The collective noun for various animals.
6. (stock breeding) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line.

Derived terms

• tribal
• tribally
• tribelet

Translations

Verb

tribe (third-person singular simple present tribes, present participle tribing, simple past and past participle tribed)

1. (transitive) To distribute into tribes or classes; to categorize.
   • 1696-1699, William Nicolson, English Historical Library

     Our fowl, fish, and quadruped are well tribed.

See also

• ethnic
• Appendix:English collective nouns

Anagrams

• Berti, Breit, Tiber, biter, rebit

Middle English

Alternative forms

• trybe, tribu

Etymology

From Old French tribu, from Latin tribus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tri?b(?)/, /?tri?bu/

Noun

tribe (plural tribus)

1. One of the twelve tribes of Israel.
2. (rare) Any tribe or kin group.
3. (rare) A league or grouping.

Descendants

• English: tribe

References

• “tr?be, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-03.