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Assembled vs Dissembled - What's the difference?

assembled | dissembled |

As verbs the difference between assembled and dissembled

is that assembled is (assemble) while dissembled is (dissemble).

assembled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (assemble)

  • 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
  • dissembled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dissemble)

  • dissemble

    English

    Verb

    (dissembl)
  • To disguise or conceal something.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Dissemble all your griefs and discontents.
  • * J. P. Kemble
  • Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love.
  • To feign.
  • * 1681 , John Dryden,
  • And like a lion, slumb'ring in the way,
    Or sleep-dissembling , while he waits his prey.
  • * Tatler
  • He soon dissembled a sleep.
  • To deliberately ignore something; to pretend not to notice.
  • To falsely hide one's opinions or feelings.
  • * XVII century, John Dryden, Cymon And Iphigenia''; from ''Boccace
  • While to his arms the blushing bride he took,
    To seeming sadness she composed her look;
    As if by force subjected to his will,
    Though pleased, dissembling , and a woman still.