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Ceremony vs Assembly - What's the difference?

ceremony | assembly |

As nouns the difference between ceremony and assembly

is that ceremony is a ritual with religious significance while assembly is a set of pieces that work together in unison as a mechanism or device.

As a proper noun Assembly is

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

ceremony

English

(wikipedia ceremony)

Alternative forms

* (both archaic)

Noun

(ceremonies)
  • A ritual with religious significance.
  • An official gathering to celebrate, commemorate, or otherwise mark some event.
  • A formal socially established behaviour, often in relation to people of different ranks.
  • (obsolete) An omen or portent.
  • * 1599 , , II. i. 197:
    • For he is superstitious grown of late, / Quite from the main opinion he held once / Of fantasy, of dreams, and ceremonies.
  • * 1599 , , II. ii. 14:
    • Caesar, I never stood on ceremonies, / Yet now they fright me.

    Derived terms

    * ceremonial * ceremonially * ceremonialness * ceremonious * ceremoniously * ceremoniousness * ramp ceremony

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    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