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Conglomerate vs Assembly - What's the difference?

conglomerate | assembly |

As a noun conglomerate

is a cluster of heterogeneous things.

As an adjective conglomerate

is clustered together into a mass.

As a verb conglomerate

is to combine together into a larger mass.

As a proper noun assembly is

(us) the lower legislative body of each of a number of states of the united states, ("the assembly").

conglomerate

English

(wikipedia conglomerate)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A cluster of heterogeneous things.
  • * Trench
    • A conglomerate of marvellous anecdotes.
  • (business) A corporation formed by the combination of several smaller corporations whose activities are unrelated to the corporation's primary activity.
  • (geology) A rock consisting of gravel or pebbles embedded in a matrix.
  • * Lyell
    • A conglomerate , therefore, is simply gravel bound together by a cement.

    See also

    * *

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Clustered together into a mass.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • beams of light when they are multiplied and conglomerate
  • * Cheyne
    • Fluids are separated in the liver and the other conglobate and conglomerate glands.
    conglomerate flowers
  • (geology) Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rock, cemented together.

    • Verb

    (conglomerat)
  • To combine together into a larger mass.
  • (business) To combine together into a larger corporation.

    • 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