misassemble
verb[IorT]
(alsomis-assemble)uk/ˌmɪs.əˈsem.bəl/us/ˌmɪs.əˈsem.bəl/to put things together in thewrongway, or to come together in thewrongway:
Hecompletelymisidentified and misassembled the mastodons heunearthed.
People oftenfindthat they have mis-assembledtheirflatpackfurniture.
Asgenomesequencescan misassemble,additionalvalidationwassought.
- These are words which havebecomephonologicallydistorted, forinstancebecause thesyllabicsegmentshave been misassembled.
- Families ofnearlyidenticalgenescan be mis-assembled withoutnecessarilyrepresentinganymemberof thefamily.
Connecting and combining
- abut
- additive
- adjoin
- affix
- agglutinate
- aggregation
- articulation
- desegregate
- desegregation
- dovetail
- eclectic
- eclectically
- hyphenate
- link(something)up
- linkage
- lumpsomeone/somethingtogether
- marriage
- marry
- weaving
- yoke