General gathering:
* Assemble: To come together in a group.
* Congregate: To come together in a large group, often for a specific purpose.
* Collect: To bring together things or people, often for a specific purpose.
* Gather: To bring together people or things.
* Meet: To come together in a specific place.
* Rally: To come together in support of something.
Bringing together ideas or information:
* Compile: To gather information and organize it into a whole.
* Synthesize: To combine different ideas or information to create something new.
Bringing together physical objects:
* Accumulate: To gather something gradually over time.
* Amalgamate: To combine things into a single unit.
* Aggregate: To combine things into a larger group.
Other possibilities:
* Amass: To gather a large quantity of something.
* Consolidate: To combine things into a stronger or more unified whole.
* Convene: To come together for a formal meeting.
* Muster: To gather people or things together for a specific purpose.
* Pool: To combine resources or efforts.
To choose the best word, consider the context and the specific type of gathering or bringing together you want to describe.