different between assemble vs throng

English

Etymology

From Middle English assemblen, from Old French assembler (“to assemble”), from Medieval Latin assimul?re (“to bring together”). Doublet of assimilate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??s?mbl?/
• Hyphenation: as?sem?ble

Verb

assemble (third-person singular simple present assembles, present participle assembling, simple past and past participle assembled)

1. (transitive) To put together.

   He assembled the model ship.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To gather as a group.

   The parents assembled in the school hall.
3. (computing) to translate from assembly language to machine code

Synonyms

• (to put together): build, construct, produce, put together; see also Thesaurus:build
• (to gather as a group): collect, begather; see also Thesaurus:assemble or Thesaurus:round up

Translations

Anagrams

• beamless

French

Verb

assemble

1. first-person singular present indicative of assembler
2. third-person singular present indicative of assembler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of assembler
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of assembler
5. second-person singular imperative of assembler

English

Etymology

From Middle English throng, thrang, from Old English þrang, ?eþrang (“crowd, press, tumult”), from Proto-Germanic *þrangw?, *þrangw? (“throng”), from *þrangwaz (“pressing, narrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *trenk?- (“to beat; pound; hew; press”). Cognate with Dutch drang, German Drang. Compare also German Gedränge (“throng”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: thr?ng, IPA^(key): /????/
• (US) enPR: thrông, thr?ng, IPA^(key): /????/, /????/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

throng (plural throngs)

1. A group of people crowded or gathered closely together.

   Synonyms: crowd, multitude

   • 1939, Ammianus Marcellinus, John Carew Rolfe, Ammianus Marcellinus, Volume 1, Harvard University Press, page 463:

     Here, mingled with the Persians, who were rushing to the higher ground with the same effort as ourselves, we remained motionless until sunrise of the next day, so crowded together that the bodies of the slain, held upright by the throng, could nowhere find room to fall, and that in front of me a soldier with his head cut in two, and split into equal halves by a powerful sword stroke, was so pressed on all sides that he stood erect like a stump.
2. A group of things; a host or swarm.

Translations

Verb

throng (third-person singular simple present throngs, present participle thronging, simple past and past participle thronged)

1. (transitive) To crowd into a place, especially to fill it.
2. (intransitive) To congregate.
   • c. 1608, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act II scene i^[3]:

     […] I have seen the dumb men throng to see him and / The blind to bear him speak: […]

3. (transitive) To crowd or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings.

   • Much people followed him, and thronged him.

Related terms

• thring

Translations

Adjective

throng (comparative more throng, superlative most throng)

1. (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal) Filled with persons or objects; crowded.
2. (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal) Busy; hurried.
   • 1903, Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, ch 59:

     Mr Shaw was very civil; he said he was rather throng just now, but if Ernest did not mind the sound of hammering he should be very glad of a talk with him.