verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
acquire/assemble/amass a collection formal
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The two men amassed a remarkable collection of medieval manuscripts.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
ever
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One of the best teams that was ever assembled .
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Buddy Ryan gave him the best defense ever assembled .
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Modestly numbered and sparely equipped, they had just bested the greatest army the Federal government had ever assembled .
■ NOUN
army
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He assembled a vast army and laid siege to the city on 4 December 1359.
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Forbes has attained his second-place status without assembling the usual army of city and town coordinators, and without political endorsements.
car
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A flexible line of robots assemble the cars .
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In 1980, for example, Kalmar assembled 22,800 cars .
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Genghis, assembled out of model car parts, weighed only 3. 6 pounds.
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As consortium leader, Hellenic Shipyards will build the stainless-steel bodyshells, provide interior fittings, and assemble the cars .
collection
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I started by assembling a collection of objects that would provide me with the type of image I had in mind.
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Nevertheless, Rowe has assembled a charming collection of pictures that give photographic immortality to our anonymous Arizona ancestors.
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All he thought he had done was to assemble a collection of his favourite songs.
crowd
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The Constable was walking along a busy thoroughfare when a crowd assembled owing to the breakdown of a motor car.
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With an effort the Collector removed his eyes from the food and looked at the crowd assembled to bid for it.
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All around us an increasing crowd was assembling on the platform while the subterranean tunnels thundered and shook with their hidden traffic.
data
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Particular attention was given to the ability to assemble the data in a wide variety of different ways.
force
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He assembled his forces and moved to defend the Isle of the Dead.
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War, rearranged borders, a country assembled and disassembled by forces beyond their control.
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The following day General Ivanov was instructed to assemble loyal forces near the capital to restore order.
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Alfonso, hearing the news, at once raised the siege of Saragossa and began to assemble his own forces .
forces
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He assembled his forces and moved to defend the Isle of the Dead.
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War, rearranged borders, a country assembled and disassembled by forces beyond their control.
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The following day General Ivanov was instructed to assemble loyal forces near the capital to restore order.
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Alfonso, hearing the news, at once raised the siege of Saragossa and began to assemble his own forces .
group
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His assembled group of lawyers is referred to as the Big Green Defense Team.
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He tried the speech out on an assembled group of civil servants and lawyers.
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Taylor had assembled a group of people who wanted nothing less than to reinvent computer science.
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From the outset, Taylor maximized his chances of assembling a Great Group by looking for people who could work collaboratively.
information
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She lay still for a moment, holding her breath while she listened and assembled the information from her senses.
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It is much easier to regurgitate previously assembled information than to ascertain new relationships and organize original categories and assimilations.
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He went back down to the kitchen and assembled his information on the table.
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The purpose should have been notified in advance so that those attending are able to assemble any information they need.
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For the reasons just described. people may not have an incentive to assemble the information required to vote intelligently.
site
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For the west Birmingham project a database of almost 8000 records has been assembled from nearly 200 site investigation reports.
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These can be reach-in or roll-in designs and are assembled on site once all the components have been brought in.
team
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The rest of the team will be assembled in their right order in the block corridor.
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Then a team assembled the column.
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Nevertheless, as the team assembled in their headquarters, there was an air of quiet confidence.
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On Friday morning, November 20, the team assembled .
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One of the best teams that was ever assembled .
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Hardly had the team unpacked and assembled their equipment than the Inspector reported on the radio that the dell was clear.
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His Diamondbacks sold 44, 000 season tickets without having a team assembled .
■ VERB
begin
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About 11.30 a.m., the opening parade began to assemble in front of the castle.
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They began to assemble a whole lot more than secret ingredients.
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Spartak have even begun assembling a foreign legion.
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He began to assemble what he remembered about the house in Mouncy Street as he had first known it.
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To prevent a bottleneck, we begin to assemble more boxes.
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From that moment his true identity began to assemble itself.
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The analyst will be able to begin to assemble the entity-relationship diagram.
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Branson began to assemble a dossier on his chairman's activities.
try
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I try to assemble the letters.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A group of angry parents had assembled outside the head teacher's office.
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A large crowd had assembled opposite the American embassy.
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Foreign diplomats and their wives had assembled in the Great Hall to meet the President.
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I looked down onto the square, where a large crowd had assembled.
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It's one of those beds that you have to assemble yourself.
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It was easy to assemble the bookcase myself.
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Ohio State's basketball team was considered one of the best ever assembled.
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Our kits are very easy to assemble .
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Prisoners must assemble in the courtyard every morning for exercise.
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Protesters started to assemble around 7 a.m.
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The apprentices worked in the shed where the new locomotives were assembled and the old ones repaired.
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We will let you have the report as soon as we have assembled all the data.
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When all the evidence is assembled, it will be clear that Michael is innocent.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A few children were assembling all the props on a table over by the far wall.
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At times, you can leisurely assemble your document, writing and rewriting it one day and showing it the next.
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He tried the speech out on an assembled group of civil servants and lawyers.
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Now that he was able to, he assembled what had happened and laid the facts before himself.
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On Friday morning, November 20, the team assembled.
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The four inside stays are now being assembled, two are complete and the other two are well advanced.
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The men assembled for one last effort.