English verb: compile | |||
1. | compile (possession) get or gather together | ||
Samples | 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. | ||
Synonyms | accumulate, amass, collect, hoard, pile up, roll up | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
Broader (hypernym) | hive away, lay in, put in, salt away, stack away, stash away, store | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | bale, catch, chunk, collect, come up, corral, fund, fund, lump, pull in, run up, scrape, scrape up, scratch | ||
2. | compile (creation) put together out of existing material | ||
Samples | Compile a list. | ||
Synonyms | compose | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s something PP | ||
Broader (hypernym) | make | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | anthologise, anthologize, catalog, catalogue, cobble together, cobble up | ||
3. | compile (creation) use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
Broader (hypernym) | make | ||