compile

verb

com·pile | \ kəm-ˈpī(-ə)l

compiled; compiling

Definition of compile

transitive verb

1 : to compose out of materials from other documents compile a statistical chart

2 : to collect and edit into a volume compile a book of poems

3 : to build up gradually compiled a record of four wins and two losses

4 : to run (something, such as a program) through a compiler

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Examples of compile in a Sentence

He compiled a book of poems. She compiled a list of names. They took the best submissions and compiled them in a single issue of the magazine. We compiled our findings in the report.

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Florida’s report — compiled from data collected by all 67 counties — is required after every major election. — Gary Fineout, The Seattle Times, "State: 83,000 voters in Florida didn’t cast a valid ballot," 5 Feb. 2019 The list was compiled based on domestic box office earnings, and Wright ran away with the title with an easy $1.55 billion in revenue. — Amanda Mitchell, Marie Claire, "Letitia Wright Crowned Box Office Queen of 2018," 2 Jan. 2019 This mobilization of soft power is the subject of a new report compiled by the Hoover Institution and the Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations. — William A. Galston, WSJ, "Roll Back China’s Soft-Power Campaign," 4 Dec. 2018 But those Our Stories have always been compiled by Snapchat employees. — Kurt Wagner, Recode, "Snapchat, which needs a business boost, is creating a new revenue stream with help from some publishers," 13 Sep. 2018 Both perspectives and stories are compiled using a combination of both AI and experienced human editors, according to Bing. — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, "Microsoft shines a 'spotlight' on Bing news searches to add more context," 27 Aug. 2018 The research, compiled by the Harvard School of Public Health’s Injury Control Research Center, is pretty clear: After controlling for variables such as socioeconomic factors and other crime, places with more guns have more gun deaths. — German Lopez, Vox, "I’ve covered gun violence for years. The solutions aren’t a big mystery.," 14 Feb. 2019 The clues were compiled by Pop Buzz, with the publication putting together a string of sources that allude to an unconfirmed romance. — Lauren Rearick, Teen Vogue, ""Riverdale" Fans Believe Archie and Josie Could Become a Couple," 19 Dec. 2018 Measures of simple average annual returns cited for U.S. stocks, long-term U.S. Treasury bonds and a 60/40 mix of the two were compiled by the paper’s authors. — WSJ, "Corrections & Amplifications," 30 Nov. 2018

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