compile
[kuh m-pahyl]
- to put together (documents, selections, or other materials) in one book or work.
- to make (a book, writing, or the like) of materials from various sources: to compile an anthology of plays; to compile a graph showing changes in profit.
- to gather together: to compile data.
- Computers. to translate (a computer program) from a high-level language into another language, usually machine language, using a compiler.
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Origin of compile
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Contemporary Examples
And so we compiled this list through conversations with colleagues and social media crowd-sourcing.
Our young and talented crew was compiled of friends and fellow classmates.
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I was just trying to get better before I compiled some audition.
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All told, Warmuth said he has compiled a list of more than 1,000 appropriations, or “citations” as he calls them, in Chronicles.
Goodwin, an associate professor at Nottingham University, has compiled the first comprehensive study on the rise of Ukip.
Historical Examples
The survey is wonderfully complete, and was compiled in a very short time.
English VillagesP. H. Ditchfield
Together with his scholars he had compiled the book which bears his name.
The Chinese Fairy BookVarious
From that diary this story of our raids, expeditions, and fights is compiled.
Three Years in the Federal CavalryWillard Glazier
Does the form of prayer compiled by Juxon, Sanderson, and Hammond exist?
This Dictionary was compiled on the plan of Calmet, but left unfinished.
compile
- to make or compose from other materials or sourcesto compile a list of names
- to collect or gather for a book, hobby, etc
- computing to create (a set of machine instructions) from a high-level programming language, using a compiler
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Word Origin
C14: from Latin compīlāre to pile together, plunder, from com- together + pīlāre to thrust down, pack
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Word Origin and History for compiled
compile
v.
early 14c., from Old French compiler "compile, collect" (13c.), from Latin compilare "to plunder, rob," probably originally "bundle together, heap up;" hence "to pack up and carry off," from com- "together" (see com-) + pilare "to compress, ram down." Related: Compiled; compiling.
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