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Compile v. t. (past & past part. compiled; pres. part. compiling)

To put together; to construct; to build. (Obs.) "Before that Merlin died, he did intend A brazen wall in compass to compile."

To contain or comprise. (Obs.) "Which these six books compile."

To put together in a new form out of materials already existing; esp., to put together or compose out of materials from other books or documents. "He (Goldsmith) compiled for the use of schools a History of Rome."

To write; to compose. (Obs.)

(Computers) To process (computer program source code) with a compiler (2) to produce an assembly-language program or an executable program in machine language.

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"Compiling" Quotes from Famous Books

... Burns received an important impulse to productiveness through his cooperation in the compiling of two national song collections. James Johnson, the editor of the first of these, was an all but illiterate engraver, ill-equipped for such an undertaking; and as the work grew in scale until it reached six volumes, Burns became virtually the editor—even writing the prefaces to several ...

— Robert Burns - How To Know Him • William Allan Neilson

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... routine was somewhat different. After closing the shop he would return to his desk and with a furtive, shamefaced air take out from a bottom drawer an untidy folder of notes and manuscript. This was the skeleton in his closet, his secret sin. It was the scaffolding of his book, which he had been compiling for at least ten years, and to which he had tentatively assigned such different titles as "Notes on Literature," "The Muse on Crutches," "Books and I," and "What a Young Bookseller Ought to Know." It had begun long ago, in the days of his odyssey ...

— The Haunted Bookshop • Christopher Morley

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... Formulary, by R. Eglesfeld Griffith, first edited in March 1850 (3rd ed. rev. and enlarged by John M. Maisch, Philadelphia: Lea, 1874) should not be considered an international drug standard. It was mainly concerned with compiling a great number of formulas and recipes, methods of preparing and administering official and other medicines, and tables on weights and measures for utilization by the ...

— History of the Division of Medical Sciences • Sami Khalaf Hamarneh

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... elected consuls. Nor was there in that year any external war: disturbances arose at home. The ambassadors had now returned with the Athenian laws; the tribunes pressed the more urgently, that a commencement should at length be made of compiling the laws. It was resolved that decemvirs should be elected without appeal, and that there should be no other magistrate during that year. There was, for a considerable time, a dispute whether plebeians should be admitted among them: at length the point was given ...

— The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 • Titus Livius

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... In compiling this report the pecan has been omitted from the list. As it is the most important member of the hickory group it was felt that the national and state pecan associations are far more competent to compile complete and reliable data on the species ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting - Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952 • Various

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