ASSEMBLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does assembling mean? 

• ASSEMBLING (noun)
  The noun ASSEMBLING has 1 sense:

1. the act of gathering something together

  Familiarity information: ASSEMBLING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASSEMBLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of gathering something together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

aggregation; assembling; collecting; collection

Hypernyms ("assembling" is a kind of...):

grouping (the activity of putting things together in groups)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "assembling"):

agglomeration (the act of collecting in a mass; the act of agglomerating)

collation (assembling in proper numerical or logical sequence)

compilation; compiling (the act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list))

gather; gathering (the act of gathering something)

bottle collection (the activity of collecting bottles)

conchology; shell collecting (the collection and study of mollusc shells)

coin collecting; coin collection; numismatics; numismatology (the collection and study of money (and coins in particular))

pickup (the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places)

philately; stamp collecting; stamp collection (the collection and study of postage stamps)

tax collection (the collection of taxes)

 Context examples 

A whole family assembling regularly for the purpose of prayer is fine!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

PBPs, including transpeptidases, carboxypeptidases, and endopeptidases, participate in the terminal stages of assembling the bacterial cell wall and in reshaping the cell wall during growth and division.

(Hetacillin, NCI Thesaurus)

PBPs participate in the terminal stages of assembling the bacterial cell wall, and in reshaping the cell wall during cell division.

(Benethamine Penicillin, NCI Thesaurus)

PBPs are enzymes involved in the terminal stages of assembling the bacterial cell wall and in reshaping the cell wall during growth and division.

(Cefaclor, NCI Thesaurus)

A group of overlapping clones representing regions of the genome; the contiguous sequence of DNA created by assembling these overlapping chromosome fragments.

(Contig, NCI Thesaurus)

Fairen-Jimenez from the Cambridge Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology leads research into advanced materials, with a particular focus on MOFs: self-assembling 3D compounds made of metallic and organic building blocks connected together.

(Nanoparticles used to transport anti-cancer agent to cells, University of Cambridge)

VLPs are composed of self-assembling L1 major capsid proteins or functional L1 major capsid protein derivatives.

(Human Papilloma Virus L1 Virus-Like Particle V504 Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

Sousa-Silva and her colleagues are assembling a database of fingerprints for molecules that could be potential biosignatures.

(Poisonous Earthly Molecule May Be Sign of Extraterrestrial Life, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Self-assembling durable silica spheres that fit inside each other.

(Nanosphere, NCI Thesaurus)

PBPs are enzymes that are involved in the last stages of assembling the bacterial cell wall and in reshaping the cell wall during growth and division.

(Imipenem, NCI Thesaurus)