These words relate to the turning out of finished products by the shaping or combination of raw materials or parts. Make is the most general and informal of these words and can apply to any process of construction: a child making a paper kite; factories that make thousands of ball-point pens each day. Manufacture is narrower in scope but can range from factual neutrality in tone to disapproval for mechanical or uncreative activity: industrialized nations that can manufacture their own machines and equipment; an artist who does make paintings so much as he manufactures them. Produce approaches the generality of make, and stresses the neutral aspect of manufacture . It emphasizes the amount of a product turned out, without necessarily implying a process of mass-production, as would be the case with manufacture : producing a new novel every two years; a region that has produced more Cabinet Ministers than any other area of the country; new methods that produce more crops from the same amount of land; a nation whose economy is tied to the amount of steel its mills produce each year. Assemble , more than the other words of this group, emphasizes the combining of parts which have been made somewhere else: waiting for a component to arrive from the manufacturer so that he could assemble his hi-fi-set.