湊

to gather together, pool or collect / to happen by chance / to move close to / to exploit an opportunity

to play music / to achieve / to present a memorial to the emperor (old)

"water" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 85), occurring in 沒|没[mei2], 法[fa3], 流[liu2] etc / see also 三點水|三点水[san1 dian3 shui3]

to bring together / to make do in a bad situation / to just get by / to improvise / passable / not too bad

fortuitously / luckily / as chance has it

compact / terse / tight (schedule)

to assemble / to put together

to join in the fun / to get in on the action / (fig.) to butt in / to create more trouble

to approach / to lean close to

to serve as a stopgap / to make up a shortfall in the number of people

to scrape together enough (people, money etc)

to pool resources (for a gift, project etc)

Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS)

(idiom) to assemble from bits and pieces; to combine items from disparate sources

assembled at random / a motley collection

unluckily

to put together hastily / to make do with

to put together / to make up (a set) / to round up (a number to a convenient multiple) / resulting in...

at hand / within easy reach / convenient / handy

to comply in order to please others / to accommodate sb else's taste / to make fun of

to raise enough money to do sth / to pool money / to club together (to do sth)

to collect all the bits to make a whole

compact car model