Assignation vs Assemble - What's the difference?
assignation | assemble |
An appointment for a meeting, generally of a romantic or sexual nature.
* Alexander Pope
The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment.
* Holland
A making over by transfer of title; assignment.
To put together.
(ambitransitive) To gather as a group.
* Milton
* Bible, 1 Kings viii. 2
(computing) to translate from assembly language to machine code
As a noun assignation
is an appointment for a meeting, generally of a romantic or sexual nature.As a verb assemble is
.assignation
English
Noun
(en noun)- While nymphs take treats, or assignations give.
- 1749' ''As soon as Mr. Barville saw me, he got up, with a visible air of pleasure and surprize, and saluting me, asked Mrs. Cole if it was possible that so fine and delicate a creature would voluntarily submit to such sufferings and rigours as were the subject of his '''assignation . — John Cleland, ''
Memoirs of Fanny Hill.
- This order being taken in the senate, as touching the appointment and assignation of those provinces.
Usage notes
Modern usage confines the word to mean an agreed-upon place for illicit sex, but earlier usage is broader, and considerably more innocent.Anagrams
*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.