assemble

/ə-ˈsem-bəl/

Middle English asemblen, assemblen "(intransitive) to come together, congregate, meet, (transitive) to bring together, gather," borrowed from Anglo-French asembler, assembler (also continental Old French), going back to Vulgar Latin *assimulāre, from Latin as- ad-*-simulāre, verbal derivative of Latin simul "in company, together, at the same time"

verb

  1. to bring together (as in a particular place or for a particular purpose)

  2. to fit together the parts of

  3. to meet together : convene

They assembled a team of experts to solve the problem.

gather collect assemble congregate mean to come or bring together into a group, mass, or unit. gather is the most general term for bringing or coming together from a spread-out or scattered state. collect often implies careful selection or orderly arrangement.

noun

  1. the process by which a complex macromolecule (such as collagen) or a supramolecular system (such as a virus) spontaneously assembles itself from its components