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Assembly vs Foregathering - What's the difference?

assembly | foregathering |

Foregathering is a synonym of assembly.



As nouns the difference between assembly and foregathering

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

As a proper noun Assembly

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

As a verb foregathering is

present participle of foregather.

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

    foregathering

    English

    Alternative forms

    * forgathering

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A gathering together; an assembly.
  • * 1911 , , The Story Girl , ch. 19:
    • [I]n all our foregatherings she was careful to sit as far from Felicity as possible.
  • * 1916 , , "The Return Journey" in Twilight in Italy :
    • The very pure source . . . is the snowy mountain-peak above. There, eternally, goes on the white foregathering of the crystals, out of the deathly cold of the heavens.

    Verb

    (head)