gathering

A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.

“I met her at a gathering of engineers and scientists.”

A group of people or things.

“A gathering of fruit.”

A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.

“This gathering machine forms the backbone of a bookbinding operation.”

A charitable contribution; a collection.

A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.

To collect; normally separate things.

“I've been gathering ideas from the people I work with.”

To bring parts of a whole closer.

“She gathered the shawl about her as she stepped into the cold.”

To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.

“From his silence, I gathered that things had not gone well.”

(of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus

“Salt water can help boils to gather and then burst.”

To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.

To gain; to win.

That gathers together

“She was worried by the gathering stormclouds.”