Definition of Assembly

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Assembly

A company of persons collected together in one place, and usually for some common purpose, esp. for deliberation and legislation, for worship, or for social entertainment.

A collection of inanimate objects.

A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.

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Assembly Quotations

In most communities it is illegal to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
Alexis de Tocqueville

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
Victor Hugo

Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us.
Roald Dahl

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.
W. H. Auden

The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
Dag Hammarskjold

The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.
Leo Burnett

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
Louis D. Brandeis

Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.
Felix Adler

A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Assembly Translations

assembly in Dutch is samenscholing
assembly in German is Baugruppe, Montage, Assembler {m}
assembly in Italian is accumulazione, allineamento, montaggio
assembly in Latin is celebratio, gelamen, congregatio, consilium
assembly in Portuguese is conjunto
assembly in Spanish is ajuste, asamblea
assembly in Swedish is samling

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