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Compiling

noun

1.

The act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list). Synonym: compilation.

Compile

verb

(past & past part. compiled; pres. part. compiling)

1.

Get or gather together. Synonyms: accumulate, amass, collect, hoard, pile up, roll up. "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis" , "She rolled up a small fortune"

2.

Put together out of existing material. Synonym: compose.

3.

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

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"Compiling" Quotes from Famous Books

... innings closed with 289 runs, Scaife carrying out his bat for an almost flawless 126. Desmond made 72; Fluff was in for twenty-seven minutes—a great performance for him—and was caught in the slips after compiling a useful 17. ...

— The Hill - A Romance of Friendship • Horace Annesley Vachell

... recourse to loans. He produced the eight (or six or seven) hundred a year he required by sheer hard writing, turning out his History of England, his Voltaire, and his Universal History by means of long spells of almost incessant labour at ruinous cost to his health. On the top of all this cruel compiling he undertook to run a Review (The Critical), a magazine (The British), and a weekly political organ (The Briton). A charge of defamation for a paragraph in the nature of what would now be considered a very mild and pertinent piece of public criticism against a faineant admiral ...

— Travels Through France and Italy • Tobias Smollett

... as shown by the photographs. The point is a curious and interesting one. In the first place I have to confess that in looking over my original drawings I find records of many irregular or unsymmetrical figures, yet in compiling the history it has been inevitable that these should be rejected, if only because identical irregularities never recur. Thus the mind of the observer is filled with an ideal splash—an "Auto-Splash"—whose perfection may ...

— The Splash of a Drop • A. M. Worthington

... to the solitary ceremony of manducation, I shall confine my observations to the experience which I have had of the grace, properly so called; commending my new scheme for extension to a niche in the grand philosophical, poetical, and perchance in part heretical, liturgy, now compiling by my friend Homo Humanus, for the use of a certain snug congregation of Utopian Rabelaesian Christians, ...

— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume 2 • Charles Lamb

... some part of his description of the windows. I am also indebted to Mr. J. Palmer Clark for leave to reproduce the photograph of the ship in the window on the south side. I am also grateful to Mr. Benham and Dr. Mann for their assistance in compiling the lists of Provosts and Organists. I have again to thank Sir G. W. Prothero, Honorary Fellow of the College, for reading through the manuscript and proofs of both editions and for his valuable suggestions. In conclusion, I would ask for the kind indulgence of my readers for any errors ...

— A Short Account of King's College Chapel • Walter Poole Littlechild

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