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compile

/kəmˈpaɪl/verb2 syllables

Compile means: get or gather together.

Synonyms for compile7

verb, as in get or gather together

roll up, collect, accumulate, pile up, amass, hoard

verb, as in put together out of existing material

What does compile mean?3

verb

1

get or gather together“I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife”

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

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with compile?14

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Compile in a sentence

  • The program could not be compiled, due to a syntax error.AlanF_US
  • Compile an essay on that topic within a fixed number of letters.blay_paul
  • We should compile a list of everybody who would be willing to help.CK
  • They used data from over ten thousand different books to compile their corpus.ferra
  • He had compiled his gripes into a bulleted list.58mph
  • The code compiled in just under an hour.CM
  • Japan's national budget for a new fiscal year is normally compiled in December.unknown
  • He compiled a Japanese folklore anthology for use in schools.CM

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of compile

as a verb

past tense
compiled
present participle
compiling
third-person singular
compiles
past participle
compiled