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Convene vs Assembly - What's the difference?

convene | assembly |

As a verb convene

is to come together; to meet; to unite.

As a noun assembly is

a set of pieces that work together in unison as a mechanism or device.

As a proper noun Assembly is

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

convene

English

Verb

(conven)
  • To come together; to meet; to unite.
  • * Isaac Newton
    • In short-sighted men the rays converge and convene in the eyes before they come at the bottom.
  • To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble.
  • * Sir R. Baker
    • The Parliament of Scotland now convened .
  • * Thomson
    • Faint, underneath, the household fowls convene .
  • To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke.
  • To summon judicially to meet or appear.

    • Synonyms

    * to meet * to assemble * to congregate * to collect * to unite * to summon * to convoke

    Derived terms

    * convention * convener, convenor

    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