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Assembly vs Assembling - What's the difference?

assembly | assembling |

As nouns the difference between assembling and assembly

is that assembling is a gathering or assembly while assembly is a set of pieces that work together in unison as a mechanism or device.

As a verb assembling

is present participle of lang=en.

As a proper noun Assembly is

the lower legislative body of each of a number of states of the United States, ("the Assembly").

assembly

English

Noun

(Freedom of assembly) (assemblies)
  • A set of pieces that work together in unison as a mechanism or device.
    • ''In order to change the bearing, you must first remove the gearbox assembly .
  • The act of putting together such set of pieces.
    • ''instructions for assembly
    assembly line
  • A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.
    • school assembly
    freedom of assembly
  • *
    • They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
  • A legislative body.
    • the of the United Nations
  • (military) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.
  • (computing)
  • (computing) In Microsoft .NET, a building block of an application, similar to a DLL, but containing both executable code and information normally found in a DLL's type library. The type library information in an assembly, called a manifest, describes public functions, data, classes, and version information.

    • Synonyms

    * (congregation of people) foregathering

    assembling

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • :She worked all night assembling the bicycle, but she succeeded.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A gathering or assembly.
  • * 1824 , Thomas Stackhouse, An epitome of the history, laws, and religion of Greece (page 281)
    • This may perhaps be carried back to a more remote period than that in which the Persians invaded Greece, and may be traced to the annual assemblings of the people to sacrifice, at the graves of their departed friends

    Synonyms

    * assemblage