compile
/kəmˈpaɪl/verb2 syllables
Compile means: get or gather together.
Synonyms for compile7
verb, as in get or gather together
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
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