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Compile

Definition: Compile

Compile

Verb

1. 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)


Specialty Definition: Compile

DomainDefinition

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.

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Synonyms: Compile

Synonyms: accumulate (v), amass (v), collect (v), compose (v), hoard (v), pile up (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Compile

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Compile

English words defined with "compile": anthologizecatalog, catalogue, CompiledRecompile. (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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Commercial Usage: Compile

DomainTitle

Books

  • How to Compile and Sell Crosswords and Other Puzzles (reference)

  • How to Compile Your Family History (reference)

  • Inventor's Guide in a Series of Four Parts: How to Protect, Search, Compile Facts and Sell Your Invention (reference)

  • Marriage indexes : how to find them, how to use them, how to compile one (reference)

  • The World of Sports Statistics: How the Fans and Professionals Record, Compile and Use Information (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Compile

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: Compile

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)83.27%20421,327
Lexical Verb (base form)16.73%4153,521
                    Total100.00%245N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Compile

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Compile

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

compile

28

compile php

3

compile error hidden in module

22

compile java package

3

agency compile

13

box compile media player x

3

autoexec compile error hidden in module

12

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3

c compile

11

class compile jsp unable

3

class compile jsp org.apache.jasper.jasperexception unable

10

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3

compile kernel linux

8

compile pl sql

3

perl compile

6

compile exe flash macromedia reverse

3

compile kernel

6

cgi.pm compile

2

batch compile file

5

compile exe

2

compile tool zoners

5

compile mod ssl win32

2

compile exe flash reverse

4

compile vb

2

compile perl script

4

9 compile during error installation oracle

2

compile error hidden in module winfaxprintandmerge

4

compile datastage

2

compile html

4

compile file java

2

autoexecnew compile error hidden in module

4

compile fral

2

compile mame

4

compile cygwin unreal

2

compile java

3

compile linux

2

compile mod ssl

3

cobol compile option

2

compile distmon error hidden in module

3

compile hat kernel red

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Compile

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), , 编写 (Compiled, Compiling), 編輯 (compiler, edit, editor), (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 , (arrange, compose, edit, fabricate, group, organize, plait, weave, write), (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

   

Portuguese

  

compilar (digest). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

compila, alcãtui (compose, constitute, construct, create, devise, elaborate, form, frame, integrate, lay down, organize). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

транслировать (relay, translate), компилировать (quilt), накапливать (accumulate, cumulate, pile up, store). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

sastaviti (assemble, compose, compound, indite, join, piece, put together, scribe, seam, sew together). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

compilar. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kompilera. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Ukrainian

  

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Compile

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 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.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Compile

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)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Compile"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "compile" (pronounced kumpī"l)
3-p ī" lpile.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Compile

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

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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