The Collaborative International Dictionary
Assembly \As*sem"bly\, n.; pl. Assemblies. [F. assembl['e]e, fr. assembler. See Assemble.]
A company of persons collected together in one place, and usually for some common purpose, esp. for deliberation and legislation, for worship, or for social entertainment.
A collection of inanimate objects. [Obs.]
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(Mil.) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.
Note: In some of the United States, the legislature, or the popular branch of it, is called the Assembly, or the General Assembly. In the Presbyterian Church, the General Assembly is the highest ecclesiastical tribunal, composed of ministers and ruling elders delegated from each presbytery; as, the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, or of Scotland.
Assembly room, a room in which persons assemble, especially for dancing.
Unlawful assembly (Law), a meeting of three or more persons on a common plan, in such a way as to cause a reasonable apprehension that they will disturb the peace tumultuously.
Westminster Assembly, a convocation, consisting chiefly of divines, which, by act of Parliament, assembled July 1, 1643, and remained in session some years. It framed the ``Confession of Faith,'' the ``Larger Catechism,'' and the ``Shorter Catechism,'' which are still received as authority by Presbyterians, and are substantially accepted by Congregationalists.
Syn: See Assemblage.
Usage examples of "assembly room".
Deliberately spuming the assembly room of the State House as representing the political establishment, they met in a large room in Carpenters Halla sort of union or guild hallon Monday, September 5.
Congress convened in the Assembly Room on the first floor, to the left of the Chestnut Street entrance.
Security guards in assembly room 4DF were in the middle of a firefight with more intruders.
He surrendered Hero to Mr Ringwood, who had come with them to the Assembly Room, and bore down upon Miss Milborne just as the Duke made her a formal bow, and began to say: “.
Stephen, for reasons he didn't care to examine, gestured Captain Sarah Blythe up between them so that they walked in clear association into the hushed assembly room.
Sal Blythe was personally acquainted with only a handful of the folk gathered in the assembly room.
I go to roll call in the assembly room and there're a dozen Kotex taped to the lectern.
It was six hours later that I went into the assembly room, over there, to see why he hadn't brought out the parts he was supposed to be assembling.
He stood up abruptly and walked out of the assembly room without even a short farewell, his broad shoulders stooped wearily.