Library / English Dictionary

COMPILE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put together out of existing material

Example:

compile a list

Synonyms:

compile; compose

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "compile" is one way to...):

make (make by shaping or bringing together constituents)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "compile"):

cobble together; cobble up (put together hastily)

anthologise; anthologize (compile an anthology)

catalog; catalogue (make a catalogue, compile a catalogue)

Sentence frames:

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Derivation:

compilation (the act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list))

compilation (something that is compiled (as into a single book or file))

compiler (a person who compiles information (as for reference purposes))

compiling (the act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "compile" is one way to...):

make (make by shaping or bringing together constituents)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

compilation (the act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list))

compiler ((computer science) a program that decodes instructions written in a higher order language and produces an assembly language program)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Get or gather together

Example:

She rolled up a small fortune

Synonyms:

accumulate; amass; collect; compile; hoard; pile up; roll up

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "compile" is one way to...):

hive away; lay in; put in; salt away; stack away; stash away; store (keep or lay aside for future use)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "compile"):

run up (pile up (debts or scores))

corral (collect or gather)

collect; pull in (get or bring together)

come up; scrape; scrape up; scratch (gather (money or other resources) together over time)

chunk; lump (put together indiscriminately)

bale (make into a bale)

catch (take in and retain)

fund (accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability)

fund (place or store up in a fund for accumulation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

compilation (the act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list))

compilation (something that is compiled (as into a single book or file))

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