Assemble vs Confect - What's the difference?
assemble | confect |
To put together.
(ambitransitive) To gather as a group.
* Milton
* Bible, 1 Kings viii. 2
(computing) to translate from assembly language to machine code
To make up, prepare, compound, construct, assemble, form, mix, mingle or put together by combining ingredients or materials; to concoct.
* 1629 , , Travels in Persia
*:Of this were confected the famous everlasting lamps and tapers.
(obsolete) To make into a confection; to prepare as a candy, sweetmeat, preserve, or the like.
*1613 , , Brittania's Pastorals ,
*:Saffron confected in Cilicia,
(obsolete) A rich, sweet, food item made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts; a confection, comfit.
* Harvey
* 1889 ,
As verbs the difference between assemble and confect
is that assemble is while confect is to make up, prepare, compound, construct, assemble, form, mix, mingle or put together by combining ingredients or materials; to concoct.As a noun confect is
(obsolete) a rich, sweet, food item made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts; a confection, comfit.assemble
English
Verb
(assembl)- He assembled the model ship.
- The parents assembled in the school hall.
- Thither he assembled all his train.
- All the men of Israel assembled themselves.
confect
English
Verb
(en verb)- The woman confected a home-remedy for the traveler's illness .
- The young bride's friends confected a dress from odds and ends of fabric.
- [My joys] are still confected with some fears.'' -- ''Stirling
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Noun
(en noun)- At supper eat a pippin roasted and sweetened with sugar of roses and caraway confects .
- She made salves and eyewaters, powders and confects , cordials and persico, orangeflower water and cherry brandy, each in its due season, and all of the best.