different between assembly vs corporation

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)

1. A set of pieces that work together in unison as a mechanism or device.

2. The act of putting together a set of pieces, fragments, or elements.
3. A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.
4. A legislative body.

5. (military) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.
6. (computing) Ellipsis of assembly language.
7. (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)

1. (computing) assembly language (programming language using mnemonics that correspond to processor instructions)

   Synonym: linguagem de montagem

English

Etymology

From Late Latin corporatio (“assumption of a body”), from Latin corporatus, past participle of corporare (“to form into a body”); see corporate.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??p???e???n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??p???e???n/

Noun

corporation (plural corporations)

1. A body corporate, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members.
2. The municipal governing body of a borough or city.
3. (historical) In Fascist Italy, a joint association of employers' and workers' representatives.
4. (slang, dated, humorous) A protruding belly (perhaps a play on the word corpulence).

   Synonym: paunch

   • 1918, Katherine Mansfield, ‘Prelude’, Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, page 91:

     'You'd be surprised,' said Stanley, as though this were intensely interesting, 'at the number of chaps at the club who have got a corporation.'

   • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 316:

     He was a big chap with a corporation already, and a flat face rather like Dora's, and he had a thin black moustache.

   • 2001, Jamie O’Neill, At Swim, Two Boys, London: Scribner, Part 2, Chapter 20, p. 620,^[2]

     The sergeant was a goner. There was only one way to save him, and he threw himself on top, hurling the man to the ground. He lay covering his corporation with as much as his body and limbs would allow.

Derived terms

• British Broadcasting Corporation
• corporation tax

Hyponyms

• (body corporate): public limited company (UK)

Related terms

• corporate
• incorporate

Translations

Further reading

• corporation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• corporation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Pronunciation

Noun

corporation f (plural corporations)

1. corporation
2. guild