assemblies
- 1Plural of assembly.
Several regional assemblies convened to debate the new constitution.
The factory ships thousands of completed circuit-board assemblies each month.
Note
A regular plural that turns the final -y into -ies, and it carries every countable use of the singular: gathered crowds, legislative bodies, fitted mechanisms, even drum or bugle calls to troops. Context does the sorting. Regional assemblies sit and debate, while circuit-board assemblies are built and shipped. The same spelling serves the people-sense and the parts-sense without any change of form.
- 2Plural of assemblie.
Note
An obsolete spelling's plural that looks exactly like the modern one. When assemblie takes its -s, the result cannot be told apart from the ordinary plural. Meaning gives no clue either, since assemblie was simply an older way of writing assembly. A reader meets this form only in older texts, and a modern writer never has to choose between the two spellings.
assemblies is a form of assembly
assembly, noun: A gathering of people brought together in one place for a particular purpose. Full entry
- Forms
- assemblyassemblies plural
- Spelling
- assembly → assemblies: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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