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Assemble vs Resemble - What's the difference?

assemble | resemble |

In transitive terms the difference between assemble and resemble

is that assemble is to put together while resemble is   To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.

assemble

English

Verb

(assembl)
  • To put together.
  • He assembled the model ship.
  • (ambitransitive) To gather as a group.
  • The parents assembled in the school hall.
  • * Milton
  • Thither he assembled all his train.
  • * Bible, 1 Kings viii. 2
  • All the men of Israel assembled themselves.
  • (computing) to translate from assembly language to machine code
  • resemble

    English

    Verb

  • (transitive)  To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.
  • * Shakespeare
  • We will resemble you in that.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.}}
  • * 2005 , .
  • But what you've just described does resemble a person of that kind.
    The twins resemble each other.
  • To compare; to regard as similar, to liken.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:
  • And th'other all yclad in garments light, / Discolour'd like to womanish disguise, / He did resemble to his Ladie bright [...].
  • (obsolete)  To counterfeit; to imitate.
  • * Holland
  • They can so well resemble man's speech.
  • (obsolete)  To cause to imitate or be like; to make similar.
  • Synonyms

    * mirror * duplicate * look like