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assembly
Noun
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A group of people who came together for an event.
She stood in front of the assembly and started to talk.
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The act of people or things coming together.
It took a few minutes for the assembly of everything she needed to bring with her.
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The act of making something by putting parts together.
We bought a desk, but we didn't know it needed assembly at home.
of
Preposition
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Made using.
It is a house of cards.
the
Determiner
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Used, instead of a, to reference something specific, already known to exist.
Compare "I read a book." and "I read the book."
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Used with a stress, to show that the word following is special.
Are you the John Smith that I went to school with?
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Used with an adjective that acts like a noun to mean all of the people concerned
The poor are always with us.
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Used with superlatives forms of adjectives and adverbs.
You are the best.
African
Noun
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An African person or thing comes from Africa.
African
Adjective
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Something or someone that is African comes from Africa.
Many African countries were colonised by the British.
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Something that is African is in a style typical of Africa.
union
Noun
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A union is when many things are joined together.
The League of Nations was a union between many nations.
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A union may be the act of joining.
The union of these two companies was painless.
is the union of two lives.