COMPILE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does compile mean? 

• COMPILE (verb)
  The verb COMPILE has 3 senses:

1. get or gather together

2. put together out of existing material

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

  Familiarity information: COMPILE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPILE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they compile    ... he / she / it compiles   
Past simple: compiled   
Past participle: compiled   
-ing form: compiling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Get or gather together

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

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

Context example:

She rolled up a small fortune

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))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Put together out of existing material

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

compile; compose

Context example:

compile a list

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:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

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 3

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)

 Context examples 

The researchers compiled a two-dimensional thermal map showing the temperature distribution along the patera, and at a resolution better than 6.25 miles (10 km).

(Massive Lava Waves Detected on Solar System’s Most Volcanically Active Object, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The researchers compiled data collected using sensitive techniques that measure phosphate to create a more accurate dataset to power global ocean models.

(Study reveals new patterns of key ocean nutrient, National Science Foundation)

Thirty-five researchers from institutions around the world worked for 10 years to compile 20 million observational records of the world's land plants.

(Nearly 40% of plant species are very rare, and vulnerable to climate change, National Science Foundation)

The study compiled additional demographic information on the mothers and children from birth records and other surveys.

(High amounts of screen time begin as early as infancy, National Institutes of Health)

An annual report, compiled and published by the staff of the financial management branch, detailing how the NCI distributed its budget among the various research programs and funding mechanisms.

(NCI Annual Fact Book, NCI Thesaurus)

By compiling data on microbial diversity and concentration, researchers estimated the deep biosphere has twice the volume of all of Earth's oceans and its mass is hundreds of times greater than that of all humans on the surface.

(Researchers Create New Model of Ecosystem Hidden Beneath Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The researchers compiled high-sensitivity phosphate datasets collected throughout the global ocean, including measurements Lomas collected over nearly two decades of intensive study in the Sargasso Sea.

(Study reveals new patterns of key ocean nutrient, National Science Foundation)