assemblage
a group of persons or things gathered or collected; an assembly; collection; aggregate.
the act of assembling; state of being assembled.
Fine Arts.
a sculptural technique of organizing or composing into a unified whole a group of unrelated and often fragmentary or discarded objects.
a work of art produced by this technique.: Compare collage, found object, ready-made (def. 4).
Archaeology. the aggregate of artifacts and other remains found on a site, considered as material evidence in support of a theory concerning the culture or cultures inhabiting it.
Origin of assemblage
1Other words from assemblage
- re·as·sem·blage, noun
- sub·as·sem·blage, noun
Words that may be confused with assemblage
- assemblage , assembly
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How to use assemblage in a sentence
They are an assemblage of straps and buckles and padding that’s secured to the back seat by the car’s existing seatbelts or a latch buckle, and they’re designed to hold a child in place so they won’t be tossed around in the event of a crash.
How Much Do We Really Care About Children? (Ep. 447) | Stephen J. Dubner | January 14, 2021 | FreakonomicsDomesticity takes many guises in Daniel Wickerham and Malcolm Lomax’s towering assemblages, which rely heavily on photographic images but also include 3-D objects.
In the galleries: A towering exhibit offers a new definition of domestic life | Mark Jenkins | January 1, 2021 | Washington PostThe assemblages allude to toys and games and appear harmless, yet the local artist has named the show “The Dangerous Playground.”
In the galleries: Where artists engage with the earth | Mark Jenkins | December 4, 2020 | Washington PostIt’s part of the Make Amazon Pay campaign, an assemblage of organized labor, human rights organizations, environmentalists and other groups that are demanding changes at the Seattle-based company in a program of protests and online press conferences.
Thousands of Amazon workers will walk off the job today to fight for fair pay and COVID protections | Ian Mount | November 27, 2020 | FortuneHe can also be described as an assemblage of atoms that exhibits complex, life-like behavior.
The Physicist’s New Book of Life - Issue 92: Frontiers | Michael Brooks | October 21, 2020 | Nautilus
“The street pole that tells a wonderful story,” Maria told the assemblage.
How Brooklyn’s First Ice Cream Girl Fought City Hall–and Won | Michael Daly | October 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe hallucination is visually incoherent, either a rough approximation of text or a random assemblage of letters.
Knocking on Heaven's Door: True Stories of Unexplained, Uncanny Experiences at the Hour of Death | Patricia Pearson | August 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOf course, the result is a wonderful modernist assemblage that has an almost Surrealist flavor.
His art collides gay culture, outsider art, religious camp and sophisticated assemblage and installation.
She saunters down the castle steps and stares out at a gloomy assemblage of soldiers.
Kristen Stewart, Star of ‘Snow White and the Huntsman,’ Isn’t Deserving of Your Scorn | Marlow Stern | May 30, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTAt the confluence of these two rivers there was the finest assemblage of Savages that I have yet seen.
A vast assemblage of countless thousands of women, and boys, and wan and starving men, gathered in the streets of Paris.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. AbbottSeldom has war brought together such a motley assemblage of races as gathered on the Ridge during the siege of Delhi.
The Red Year | Louis TracyCastile enjoyed the supremacy in that great assemblage of races and languages.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington MacaulayAnd, from the above assemblage of facts, it appears evident that the said Diard killed himself voluntarily and by his own hand.
Juana | Honore de Balzac
British Dictionary definitions for assemblage
/ (əˈsɛmblɪdʒ) /
a number of things or persons assembled together; collection; assembly
a list of dishes served at a meal or the dishes themselves
the act or process of assembling or the state of being assembled
(ˌæsəmˈblɑːʒ) a three-dimensional work of art that combines various objects into an integrated whole
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Scientific definitions for assemblage
[ ə-sĕm′blĭj ]
A collection of artifacts from a single datable component of an archaeological site. Depending on the site and culture, an assemblage may be associated with a single limited activity, as with stone tools found at a butchering site, or may reflect a broad range of cultural life, as with artifacts that are found in a communal living site.
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