compile - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'compile' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Compile

[ v. t.]

- To put together; to construct; to build.
- To contain or comprise.
- 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.
- To write; to compose.

Meaning of 'compile' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . compile

[ v]

Meaning (1):
- put together out of existing material

Example in sentence:

compile a list

Meaning (2):
- get or gather together

Example in sentence:

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

Nearby Words:

com- coma comanches comart comate comatose comatous comatula comatulid comb

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Compiler
Compiler refers to a system software product that reads a program written in a high-level language and translates it into machine language.

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