Assemble vs Resemble - What's the difference?
assemble | resemble |
To put together.
(ambitransitive) To gather as a group.
* Milton
* Bible, 1 Kings viii. 2
(computing) to translate from assembly language to machine code
(transitive) To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.
* Shakespeare
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To compare; to regard as similar, to liken.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:
(obsolete) To counterfeit; to imitate.
* Holland
(obsolete) To cause to imitate or be like; to make similar.
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)- 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.
resemble
English
Verb
- We will resemble you in that.
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- But what you've just described does resemble a person of that kind.
- The twins resemble each other.
- And th'other all yclad in garments light, / Discolour'd like to womanish disguise, / He did resemble to his Ladie bright [...].
- They can so well resemble man's speech.
