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com·pile

(kəm-pīl′)

tr.v. com·piled, com·pil·ing, com·piles

1. To gather into a single book.

2. To put together or compose from materials gathered from several sources: compile an encyclopedia.

3. Computers To translate (a program) into machine language.

[Middle English compilen, from Old French compiler, probably from Latin compīlāre, to plunder : com-, com- + pīla, heap (of stones), pillar.]

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compile

(kəmˈpaɪl)

vb (tr)

1. to make or compose from other materials or sources: to compile a list of names.

2. to collect or gather for a book, hobby, etc

3. (Computer Science) computing to create (a set of machine instructions) from a high-level programming language, using a compiler

[C14: from Latin compīlāre to pile together, plunder, from com- together + pīlāre to thrust down, pack]

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com•pile

(kəmˈpaɪl)

v.t. -piled, -pil•ing.

1. to put together (documents, selections, or other materials) in one book or work.

2. to make (a book, writing, or the like) of materials from various sources: to compile an anthology of plays.

3. to gather together: to compile data.

4. to translate (a computer program) by means of a compiler.

[1275–1325; Middle English < Latin compīlāre to rob, pillage]

compile

Past participle: compiled
Gerund: compiling

Imperative
compile
compile

Present
I compile
you compile
he/she/it compiles
we compile
you compile
they compile

Preterite
I compiled
you compiled
he/she/it compiled
we compiled
you compiled
they compiled

Present Continuous
I am compiling
you are compiling
he/she/it is compiling
we are compiling
you are compiling
they are compiling

Present Perfect
I have compiled
you have compiled
he/she/it has compiled
we have compiled
you have compiled
they have compiled

Past Continuous
I was compiling
you were compiling
he/she/it was compiling
we were compiling
you were compiling
they were compiling

Past Perfect
I had compiled
you had compiled
he/she/it had compiled
we had compiled
you had compiled
they had compiled

Future
I will compile
you will compile
he/she/it will compile
we will compile
you will compile
they will compile

Future Perfect
I will have compiled
you will have compiled
he/she/it will have compiled
we will have compiled
you will have compiled
they will have compiled

Future Continuous
I will be compiling
you will be compiling
he/she/it will be compiling
we will be compiling
you will be compiling
they will be compiling

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been compiling
you have been compiling
he/she/it has been compiling
we have been compiling
you have been compiling
they have been compiling

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been compiling
you will have been compiling
he/she/it will have been compiling
we will have been compiling
you will have been compiling
they will have been compiling

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been compiling
you had been compiling
he/she/it had been compiling
we had been compiling
you had been compiling
they had been compiling

Conditional
I would compile
you would compile
he/she/it would compile
we would compile
you would compile
they would compile

Past Conditional
I would have compiled
you would have compiled
he/she/it would have compiled
we would have compiled
you would have compiled
they would have compiled

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Verb	1.	compile - get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune" accumulate, collect, hoard, amass, roll up, pile up run up - pile up (debts or scores) corral - collect or gather; "corralling votes for an election" collect, pull in - get or bring together; "accumulate evidence" scrape up, scrape, scratch, come up - gather (money or other resources) together over time; "She had scraped together enough money for college"; "they scratched a meager living" chunk, lump - put together indiscriminately; "lump together all the applicants" bale - make into a bale; "bale hay" catch - take in and retain; "We have a big barrel to catch the rainwater" fund - accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability; "fund a medical care plan" fund - place or store up in a fund for accumulation salt away, stack away, stash away, store, hive away, lay in, put in - keep or lay aside for future use; "store grain for the winter"; "The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat"
	2.	compile - put together out of existing material; "compile a list" compose cobble together, cobble up - put together hastily anthologise, anthologize - compile an anthology catalog, catalogue - make a catalogue, compile a catalogue; "She spends her weekends cataloguing" make - make by shaping or bringing together constituents; "make a dress"; "make a cake"; "make a wall of stones"
	3.	compile - use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed make - make by shaping or bringing together constituents; "make a dress"; "make a cake"; "make a wall of stones"

compile

verb put together, collect, gather, organize, accumulate, marshal, garner, amass, cull, anthologize The anthology took ten years to compile.

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Translations

يَجْمَع، يُؤَلِّف

sestavit

kompilereredigeresamle

kompilieren zusammenstellen

συντάσσω

compilar

kääntääkoota

compiler colliger

összeállít

safna/taka saman

compilare compilazione

kompiliacijakompiliatoriuskompiliuotisudarymassudaryti

kompilētvākt

plukke sammen utarbeide

compilar

компилировать

bir araya getirmekderlemek

编写编辑

compile

[kəmˈpaɪl] VT [+ list, catalogue] → compilar (also Comput); [+ information] → recopilar

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

compile

[kəmˈpaɪl] vt [+ report, book, programme] → compiler; [+ dictionary] → compiler, rédiger; [+ list, register] → dresser; [+ figures, statistics] → compiler, rassembler

compile

vt → zusammenstellen, erstellen (form); material → sammeln, zusammentragen; dictionary → verfassen; (Comput) → kompilieren

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compile

[kəmˈpaɪl] vt → compilare

compile

(kəmˈpail) verb

to make (a book, table etc) from information collected from other books etc. He compiled a French dictionary.

compilation (kompiˈleiʃən) noun

comˈpiler noun

References in classic literature ?

A skillful individual in his closet with all the local codes before him, might compile a law on some subjects of taxation for the whole union, without any aid from oral information, and it may be expected that whenever internal taxes may be necessary, and particularly in cases requiring uniformity throughout the States, the more simple objects will be preferred.

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But the men who compile the Sailing Directions have never heard of the change that was worked in the hearts of the inhabitants, who, not many years ago, cut off a big bark and killed all hands with the exception of the second mate.

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I can very confidently announce one or another law, which throws itself into relief and form, but I am too young yet by some ages to compile a code.

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''We are trying to compile a budget within the framework of 30 trillion yen (for new government bond issuance), while we only have tax revenues of 50 trillion yen.

Koizumi sticks to 30 tril. yen debt cap

Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa on Friday proposed the cabinet of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi compile by the end of December an assessment of the nation's medium- and long-term fiscal and economic outlook to allow it to better manage its policies.

Shiokawa proposes compiling economic, fiscal outlook

16 says the accountant is not obligated to compile financial statements he or she has not generated or materially modified.

When do the provisions of SSARS no. 1 apply?

Meanwhile, the Maritime Staff Office revealed some of the findings of its investigation into the matter, saying the lieutenant commander who allegedly compiled the list of private data was aware his actions were illegal, but that his supervisor gave him tacit permission to compile the list.

Nakatani responsible for lists of info-seekers: Fukuda

* Although the actual tax status date was January 5, be sure to compile information on recent and upcoming vacancies or other factors that decrease a property's value - e.g., leases that have been terminated or renegotiated at a lesser value, and recent tenant bankruptcies - because the tax-assessment office is working with data that may be dated.

Expert warns about valuation assessment deadline

Nakagawa said in a speech that the premier plans to compile a new reform program, including steps to fight deflation, around Sept.

Gov't eyes new economic package, but timing uncertain

Sakaiya made the comment after Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi instructed his cabinet Friday to compile a stimulus package of more than 10 trillion yen by early or mid-November.