Assembly vs. Congress — What's the Difference?

The act of assembling.

Congresses are formal meetings of the representatives of different countries, constituent states, organizations, trade unions, political parties or other groups. The term originated in Late Middle English to denote an encounter (meeting of adversaries) during battle, from the Latin congressus.

The state of being assembled.

A formal assembly of representatives, as of various nations, to discuss problems.

A group of persons gathered together for a common reason, as for a legislative, religious, educational, or social purpose.

The national legislative body of a nation, especially a republic.

Assembly The lower house of the legislature in certain US states.

The national legislative body of the United States, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives.

The putting together of manufactured parts to make a completed product, such as a machine or electronic circuit.

The two-year session of this legislature between elections of the House of Representatives.

A set of parts so assembled.

The act of coming together or meeting.

A signal by bugle or drum for troops to come together in formation.

A single meeting, as of a political party or other group.

(Computers) The automatic translation of symbolic code into machine code.

Sexual intercourse.

(Computers) An assembly language.

(archaic) A coming together of two or more people; a meeting.

A set of pieces that work together in unison as a mechanism or device.

A formal gathering or assembly; a conference held to discuss or decide on a specific question.

The act of putting together a set of pieces, fragments, or elements.

A legislative body of a state, originally the bicameral legislature of the United States of America.

A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.

An association, especially one consisting of other associations or representatives of interest groups.

(politics) A legislative body.

(dated) Coitus; sexual intercourse.

(military) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.

(intransitive) To assemble together.

(computing) assembly language

To meet in a congress.

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.

A meeting of individuals, whether friendly or hostile; an encounter.

A company of persons collected together in one place, and usually for some common purpose, esp. for deliberation and legislation, for worship, or for social entertainment.

A sudden encounter; a collision; a shock; - said of things.

A collection of inanimate objects.

The coming together of a male and female in sexual commerce; the act of coition.

A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.

A gathering or assembly; a conference.

A group of machine parts that fit together to form a self-contained unit

A formal assembly, as of princes, deputies, representatives, envoys, or commissioners; esp., a meeting of the representatives of several governments or societies to consider and determine matters of common interest.

The act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)

The collective body of senators and representatives of the people of a nation, esp. of a republic, constituting the chief legislative body of the nation.

A public facility to meet for open discussion

The lower house of the Spanish Cortes, the members of which are elected for three years.

A group of persons gathered together for a common purpose

The legislature of the United States government

The social act of assembling;

A meeting of elected or appointed representatives

A national legislative assembly

The act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur