Meaning of COMPILE
| Pronunciation: | | kum'pIl
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- [v] put together out of existing material; "compile a list"
- [v] use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed
- [v] get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for athe man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"
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| | Synonyms: | | accumulate, amass, collect, compose, hoard, pile up |
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| | See Also: | | anthologise, anthologize, bale, catalog, catalogue, catch, chunk, cobble together, cobble up, come up, corral, fund, hive away, lay in, lump, make, pull in, put in, run up, salt away, scrape, scrape up, stack away, stash away, store | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Com*pile"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Compiled}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Compiling}.] [F. compiler, fr.L. compilare to
plunder, pillage; com- + pilare to plunder. See {Pill}, v.
t., Pillage.]
1. To put together; to construct; to build. [Obs.]
Before that Merlin died, he did intend A brazen wall
in compass to compile. --Spenser.
2. To contain or comprise. [Obs.]
Which these six books compile. --Spenser.
3. To put together in a new form out of materials already
existing; esp., to put together or compose out of
materials from other books or documents.
He [Goldsmith] compiled for the use of schools a
History of Rome. --Macaulay.
4. To write; to compose. [Obs.] --Sir W. Temple.
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| | Related Terms: | | accumulate, agglomerate, aggregate, aggroup, amass, assemble, batch, bring together, bulk, bunch, bunch together, bunch up, clump, cluster, collate, collect, colligate, collocate, combine, compare, compose, conglomerate, corral, cumulate, dig up, draw together, dredge up, drive together, gather, gather in, gather together, get in, get together, group, join, juxtapose, lump together, make up, mass, match, mobilize, muster, order, organize, pair, partner, put together, raise, rake up, rally, round up, scrape together, systematize, take up, whip in |
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