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Compile Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Compile?

[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"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Compile: accumulate | amass | collect | compose | hoard | pile up

Related Terms | Find terms related to Compile: 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

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

Compile In Webster's Dictionary

\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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