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assembly
English
Etymology
From Middle English assemblee, from Anglo-Norman asemblee (Old French asemblee, French assemblée).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??s?mb.l?/
- (US) IPA(key): /??s?mb.li/
Noun
assembly (countable and uncountable, plural assemblies)
- A set of pieces that work together in unison as a mechanism or device.
- The act of putting together a set of pieces, fragments, or elements.
- A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.
- A legislative body.
- (military) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.
- (computing) Ellipsis of assembly language.
- (computing) In Microsoft .NET, a building block of an application, similar to a DLL, but containing both executable code and information normally found in a DLL's type library. The type library information in an assembly, called a manifest, describes public functions, data, classes, and version information.
Synonyms
- church (obsolete)
- (congregation of people): foregathering
Hyponyms
- house of assembly
- jural assembly
Derived terms
- assembly point
- self-assembly
Translations
Portuguese
Etymology
From English assembly.
Noun
assembly m (plural assemblies)
- (computing) assembly language (programming language using mnemonics that correspond to processor instructions)
- Synonym: linguagem de montagem
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clump
English
Etymology
From Middle English clompe, from Old English clymppe, a variant of clympre (“a lump or mass of metal”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“mass, lump, clump; clasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *glemb?- (“lump, clamp”).Alternatively, possibly from Middle Dutch clompe or Middle Low German klumpe (compare German Klumpen). Cognates include Danish klump (probably from Low German as well). Compare Norwegian Bokmål klump.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kl?mp/
- Rhymes: -?mp
Noun
clump (plural clumps)
- A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.
- A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair.
- 1954, Lucian Hobart Ryland (translator), Adelaide of Brunswick (originally by Marquis de Sade)
- clump of trees
- 1954, Lucian Hobart Ryland (translator), Adelaide of Brunswick (originally by Marquis de Sade)
- A dull thud.
- The compressed clay of coal strata.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Brande & C to this entry?)
- A small group of trees or plants.
- (historical) A thick addition to the sole of a shoe.
Derived terms
- clumpy
Translations
- to be checked
Verb
clump (third-person singular simple present clumps, present participle clumping, simple past and past participle clumped)
- (transitive, intransitive) To form clusters or lumps.
- (transitive, intransitive) To gather in dense groups.
- (intransitive) To walk with heavy footfalls.
- (transitive, Britain, regional) To strike; to beat.
- 1912, Mrs. Coulson Kernahan, The Go-Between (page 79)
- There is his poor little cap hanging up on the door; and there on the table is the knife he chipped a piece out of through not minding the mark on the knife machine, and I clumped his head for him, poor lamb!
- 1912, Mrs. Coulson Kernahan, The Go-Between (page 79)
Derived terms
- clump up
Translations
References
Further reading
- Clump in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
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