Definitions of compile [əmˈpaɪl]

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Definition of 'compile'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

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

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

3.  compile
to gather together:
to compile data.

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

Etymology: (1275–1325; ME < L compīlāre to rob, pillage)

Definition of 'compile'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) roll up, collect, accumulate, pile up, amass, compile, hoard
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"

2. (verb) compose, compile
put together out of existing material
"compile a list"

3. (verb) compile
use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed

Definition of 'compile'

Webster Dictionary

1. (verb) compile
to put together; to construct; to build

2. (verb) compile
to contain or comprise

3. (verb) compile
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

4. (verb) compile
to write; to compose

Translation of 'compile'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to make (a book, table etc) from information collected from other books etc He compiled a French dictionary.
Afrikaans: saamstel, versamel	Arabic: يَجْمَع، يُؤَلِّف	Bulgarian: съставям
Brazilian: compilar	Czech: sestavit	German: zusammenstellen
Danish: redigere; samle; kompiler	Greek: συντάσσω κτ. συλλέγοντας	Spanish: compilar
Estonian: koostama, kompileerima	Farsi: گردآوری کردن	Finnish: koota
French: composer (par compilation	Hebrew: לְלָקֵט וְלַעֲרוֹך	Hindi: संकलन करना, संग्रह करना
Croatian: sastaviti, povaditi iz, k	Hungarian: (meg)szerkeszt	Indonesian: mengumpulkan
Icelandic: safna/taka saman	Italian: compilare	Japanese: 編集する
Korean: 편찬하다	Lithuanian: sudaryti, kompiliuoti	Latvian: kompilēt; vākt
Malay: menyusun	Dutch: samenstellen	Norwegian: samle, plukke sammen, uta
Polish: opracowywać, kompilować	Persian: گردآوری کردن	Pashto: تصنيفول، تاليفول . ياتالي
Portuguese: compilar	Romanian: a compila	Russian: составлять
Slovak: zostaviť	Slovenian: sestaviti (iz več virov)	Serbian: sastaviti
Swedish: ställa samman, utarbeta	Thai: รวบรวม	Turkish: derlemek, bir araya getir
Taiwanese: 編纂，彙編	Ukrainian: компілювати; укладати	Vietnamese: biên soạn
Chinese: 编写，编辑
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