simal-, simil-, simul-, -semble

1. An assembling or being assembled.
2. Any gathering of people or things; a collection; an assembly.
3. A fitting together, as parts of a machine.
4. A work of art created by assembling materials and objects; also, the technique of making such works.

1. To bring or to call together into a group, one place, company, body, or a whole: "The judge assembled the jury."
2. To fit together the parts or pieces of; such as, to assemble a machine; to assemble data; or to assemble information for a report.
3. To gather together; to congregate.
4. Etymology: from Old French assembler, from Latin assimulare, "to make like, to think like"; later "to gather together"; from ad-, "to" + simul, "together".

1. An assembling; such as, a coming together of a number of people, usually for a particular purpose.
2. A group of people gathered together, usually for a particular purpose, whether religious, political, educational, or social.
3. In government: a legislative body; especially, the lower house of the legislature in certain states of the U.S.: "The congressman presented a bill before the assembly."
4. In the military, a signal, as by drum or bugle, for troops to fall into ranks or otherwise to assemble, or the movement of forces, tanks, soldiers, etc., scattered by battle or battle drill, toward and into a small area.
5. The putting together of complex machinery; such as, airplanes, from interchangeable parts of standard dimensions.
6. A group of machine parts; especially, one forming a self-contained, independently mounted unit.

An arrangement of machines and workers in a factory; such as, along a moving track or belt, so that a number of specialized operations may be performed on a unit of work as it pases from one to another.

Capable of being assimilated, or becoming alike, or similar.

1. To integrate someone into a larger group, so that differences are minimized or eliminated, or they become integrated.
2. To conform or to adjust to the customs, attitudes, etc., of a group, nation, or the like: "The new arrivals assimilated easily and quickly into their new culture."
3. To integrate new knowledge or information with what is already known or to incorporate and absorb into the mind; such as, to assimilate knowledge.
4. To incorporate digested food materials into the cells and tissues of the body.
5. To make a speech sound similar to an adjacent sound, or to become similar to an adjacent sound.
6. Etymology: from Latin assimilatus, assimilare, "to make like"; from ad-, "to" + simulare, "to make similar"; from similis, "like, resembling".

1. The process of becoming part of, or more like, something greater.
2. The process in which one group takes on the cultural and other traits of a larger group.
3. The integration of new knowledge or information with what is already known.
4. The process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
5. The incorporation of nutrients into the cells and tissues of plants and animals involving digestion, photosynthesis, and root absorption.
6. The changing of a speech sound under the influence of an adjacent sound.

The practice or policy of assimilating, or encouraging the assimilation, of people from all races and cultures: "At first the family from Iraq resisted the assimilationism of the United States."

Tending to, characterized by, tending to, or causing assimilation (being absorbed into or incorporated into).

1. To disguise or to conceal behind a false appearance in order to conceal facts, feelings, or intentions.
2. To make a false show of; to feign; to put on the appearance of something not actually felt or true.
3. To disguise or to conceal one's real nature, motives, or feelings behind a false appearance; such as, to hide real beliefs, feelings, or intentions through misleading speech or behavior.

1. Someone who dissembles; that is, a person who conceals his/her opinions or dispositions under a false appearance; a hypocrite; "a phony".
2. To disguise or to conceal one's real nature, motives, or feelings behind a false appearance.

A person is called a dissembler with reference to the concealment of her/his real character, and a hypocrite with reference to his/her assumptions of a false character.

Hypocrite is the stronger word, being commonly used to characterize a person who is habitually insincere and false; especially, someone who makes professions of goodness when that person's aims are selfish and his/her life is corrupt.

1. Differing in one or more respects; not alike.
2. Not similar; unlike; different.

1. The fact, or state, of being different in one or more respects.
2. A point of difference or distinction.

In a dissimilar manner or in a varied style.

1. To make dissimilar or to cause to become less similar.
2. To make or to become unlike.