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Definition: Compile |
CompileVerb1. Get together. 2. Put together out of existing material; "compile a list". 3. Use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "compile" was first used: sometime in the early 14th century. (references) |
Note: Compile \Com*pile"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Compiled; present participle verb or noun Compiling.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | In computer terminology, to assemble the necessary subroutines into a main routine for a specific problem. (references) |
Language | To gather together. Source: European Union. (references) |
Law | To put together documents, selections or other materials in one work. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: CompileSynonyms: accumulate (v), amass (v), collect (v), compose (v), hoard (v), pile up (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Assemblage | Assemble, muster; bring together, get together, put together, draw together, scrape together, lump together; collect, collocate, colligate; get, whip in; gather; hold a meeting; convene, convoke, convocate; rake up, dredge; heap, mass, pile; pack, put up, truss, cram; acervate; agglomerate, aggregate; compile; group, aggroup, concentrate, unite; collect into a focus, bring into a focus; amass, accumulate; (store); collect in a dragnet; heap Ossa upon Pelion. |
Compendium | Verb: abridge, abstract, epitomize, summarize; make an abstract, prepare an abstract, draw an abstract, compile an abstract; n. |
Abbreviate; (shorten); condense; (compress); compile; (collect). | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Compile |
| English words defined with "compile": anthologize ♦ catalog, catalogue, Compiled ♦ Recompile. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Compile" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (compiles). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Because a successful bidder is required to compile and coordinate a complex package of services, only the large-sized companies have typically competed in the projects as prime contractors. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Iran | Evangelical Christian groups are pressured by government authorities to compile and hand over membership lists for their congregations. (references) |
Economic History | Bulgaria | The trustee then has 14 days to compile a list of debts. (references) |
China | MOA and the China Dairy Industry do not compile statistics on these products either. (references) | |
Trade | Nigeria | To compile a list of Nigerian Standards Specifications. (references) |
Colombia | Decree 300 of 1995 establishes that the Industry and Commerce Superintendency (SIC) (under the Ministry of Economic Development) must compile the list of products requiring the Certificate of Conformity and issue this certificate for import purposes. (references) | |
Women | Latvia | Police do not compile figures for domestic violence as a distinct category. (references) |
Worker Rights | Japan | Traffickers were prosecuted for crimes ranging from violations of employment law to Penal Code offenses such as abduction, and the Government does not compile statistics on the number of trafficking victims associated with these cases. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode a house, and Kant, who lived in a horse. His understanding was so keen That all things which he'd felt, heard, seen, He could interpret without fail If he was in or out of jail. He wrote at Inspiration's call Deep disquisitions on them all, Then, pent at last in an asylum, Performed the service to compile 'em. So great a writer, all men swore, They never had not read before. Jorrock Wormley |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Compile" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 83.27% of the time. "Compile" is used about 245 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 83.27% | 204 | 21,327 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 16.73% | 41 | 53,521 |
| Total | 100.00% | 245 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "compile": compile an abstract ♦ compile duration ♦ compile phase. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "compile": re-compile. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "compile"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | përpiloj (draw, frame, make), mbledh (accumulate, add, add together, assemble, bank, brush up, call in, call together, cast, cast up, clench, collate, collect, compress, congregate, convene, convoke, draw, dredge, drum up, focus, fold, fund, furl, gather, get together, group, herd, impound, kilt, levy, lift, make up, pack, pick, pick off, pick up, pool, rally, reap, round up, scoop up, shut, sweep, take, total, totalize), hartoj (compose, draw, draw up, frame, indite, make, redact), grumbulloj (accumulate, amalgamate, amass, assemble, clamp, collect, conglomerate, cumulate, gather, get together, heap, hoard, mass, pile, pool, rally, stack, unite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كتب (compose, draft, draw up, enter, inscribe, note down, pen, prescribe, publication, record, register, write, write down), صنف (article, assort, brand, categorize, category, class, classification, classify, designate, digest, distinguish, distribute, grade, group, kind, label, pigeonhole, place, rank, rate, sort, species, stow, systematize, table, tabulate, type), جمع (accumulate, add, addition, aggregate, ally, amass, assemblage, assemble, band, be gathered, cast, collect, collecting, collection, combination, combine, compose, congregate, connecting, corral, embody, fund, gather, gathering, glean, go berrying, grouping, herd, ingathering, joining up, lump, marshal, muster, pickup, piece together, pile, pile up, pool, put together, raise, rake, rally, reap, round up, scratch, scratch together, stack, sum, sum up, summation, summing up, tot, total, totalize, unite, uniting), ألف (accustom, affect, comprise, constitute, form, frequent, millenary, put together, score, thousand, write). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съставям (compose, compound, design, draw, draw up, form, frame, indite, make, make out, plot, strike), събирам (accumulate, add, add together, add up, aggregate, amass, assemble, bring together, call forth, call together, club, collect, congregate, cumulate, drum up, embody, enlist, foot, furl, garner, gather, get together, harvest, lump, lump together, mass, muster, muster up, pin down, pull together, punch, raise, rake, rake together, rake up, rally, reassemble, reunite, round up, run up, scare up, sum, sum up, swoop, total, totalize, whip in), компилирам (quilt, throw together). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | " (compose, discourse in praise), 纂 , 编写 (Compiled, Compiling), 編輯 (compiler, edit, editor), 編 (concoct, cook up, create out of the imagination, draw up, fabricate, invent, make up, work out), 編著 (write), 編選 (select and edit), 編纂 , 編寫 , 編 (arrange, compose, edit, fabricate, group, organize, plait, weave, write), 篹 (compose, delicacies, food), ' (compose). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zpracovat (cajole, process, utilize, write up), shromáždit (amass, assemble, bunch together, congregate, gather, rally, round up), sestavit (assemble, draw up, erect, frame, make, make out, make up, piece together, put together, set), sebrat (dig up, gather up, nab, pick up, pouch, raise, rally, scoop up, take in, take up), kompilovat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kompilere. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | samenstellen (compose, put together), compileren. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | kompili. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | گرداوردن (Amass, Assemble, Collect, Troop), تالیف کردن (Write). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | toimittaa (arrange, attend to, carry out, deliver, discharge, do, edit, perform, see to, supply), laatia (compose, create, draw up, make, prepare, work out, write). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | compiler. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kompilieren. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συντάσσω (compose, draw up, edit, fall in, indite, redact, write), συλλέγω (cluster, collect, gather, pick, raise, rake, roundup). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ללקוט (assemble, collect, gather), ללקט (collect, cull, gather, glean, pick), לחבר על י"י אסוף. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | összeállít (assemble, collocate, compose, edit, frame, make out, piece together, shook, to aggregate, to compile, to erect, to make up, to patch, to piece together, to refit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Irish | tiomsaigh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | compilare (assort, to assemble, to fill out, write, write off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | コンパイラー言葉 (CD, compact, compact camera, compact car, compact disc, compaction, compiler language). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | コンパイル . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 집계하십시". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cur ry-cheilley (assemblage, assemble, associate, clump, combine, connect, connotation, consolidate, consolidation, construct, evolve, incorporate, keep together, reconcile, relate, sum, teamwork). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | kompilá. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ompilecay compilar (digest). (various references) compila, alcãtui (compose, constitute, construct, create, devise, elaborate, form, frame, integrate, lay down, organize). (various references) транслировать (relay, translate), компилировать (quilt), накапливать (accumulate, cumulate, pile up, store). (various references) sastaviti (assemble, compose, compound, indite, join, piece, put together, scribe, seam, sew together). (various references) compilar. (various references) kompilera. (various references) toplamak (accumulate, add, add together, add up, agglomerate, aggregate, amass, assemble, beat up, bring together, build, call in, cast up, clear away, club, collect, combine, concentrate, congest, congregate, consolidate, convene, cull, fold down back, furl, gather, gather up, glean, hand-pick, harvest, heap up, herd, hive, hive up, hoard, huddle, impound, lay up, levy, mass, muster, pack, pick, pick up, pluck, raise, rake together, rally, reckon up, recover, recruit, reunite, round up, scoop up, smarten up, sum up, summon, summon up, tot up, total, totalize, treasure, treasure up, turn out), telif etmek, sıralamak (align, Aline, arrange, array, collate, collocate, concatenate, juxtapose, line up, Marshal, put in order, range, string), derlemek (collect, gather together, glean, patch up). (various references) укладати (bundle, conclude, effect, inset, put, transact), упорядковувати (adjust, arrange, fettle, methodize, normalize, order, put in order, regularize, set in order), компілювати (put together, quilt, throw together), збирати (agglomerate, amass, assemble, bag, canvass, carry, collect, congregate, convene, convoke, cull, gather, gather in, levy, make up, muster, pick, pick in, summon, win). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | compilare, congero, conponam, conponamus, conpone, conponens, conponentes, conponere, conponeris, conpones, conponet, conponis, conponunt, conposita, conpositae, conpositam, conpositis, conposito, conpositum, conpositus, conposuerit, conposueritis, conposuerunt, conposuit, inconposita, inconpositos. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "compile": compiled, compiler, compilers, compiles. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "compile": recompile. (additional references) | |
Words containing "compile": recompiled, recompiles. (additional references) | |
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"Compile" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Campiglio, campille, ccmail, Ciampoli, cimple, comble, comfily, comile, compi, compible, compil, Compilio, compite, compize, compla, comple, complice, complie, compul, concile, copale, copile, Copilia, Kopelev. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "compile" (pronounced kumpī"l) |
| 3 | -p ī" l | pile. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: polemic. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-l-m-o-p" | |
-1 letter: compel, police. | |
-2 letters: celom, clime, clomp, impel, melic, oleic. | |
-3 letters: ceil, clip, clop, coil, cole, come, comp, cope, emic, epic, lice, lime, limo, limp, lipe, loci, lope, mice, mile, milo, moil, mole, mope, pice, pile, plie, poem, pole, pome. | |
-4 letters: cel, cep, col, cop, elm, ice, imp, lei, lie, lip, lop, mel, mil, moc. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-l-m-o-p" | |
+1 letter: compiled, compiler, compiles, complice, complied, complier, complies, compline, picomole, polemics. | |
+2 letters: compilers, complices, compliers, complines, micropyle, mycophile, picomoles, polemical, policeman, policemen, polymeric, recompile. | |
+3 letters: accomplice, clomiphene, compatible, compelling, complained, complainer, completing, completion, completist, completive, complexify, complexing, complexion, complexity, compliance, complicate, compliment, compulsive, epitomical, hemophilic, impolicies, incomplete, micropyles, mycophiles, plyometric, polemicist, polemicize, proclaimed, proclaimer, recompiled, recompiles. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Bibliography |
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