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com·pile  (km-pl)
tr.v. com·piled, com·pil·ing, com·piles
1. To gather into a single book.
2. To put together or compose from materials gathered from several sources: compile an encyclopedia.
3. Computer Science To translate (a program) into machine language.
[Middle English compilen, from Old French compiler, probably from Latin complre, to plunder : com-, com- + pla, heap (of stones), pillar.]
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Noun1.compiling - the act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list); "the job of compiling the inventory took several hours"
compilation
assembling, collecting, aggregation, collection - the act of gathering something together
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And its utility has become so apparent, that persons who, in compiling the Constitution, were violent opposers of it, have from experience become its declared admirers.
Federalist Papers Authored by Alexander Hamilton by Hamilton, Alexander View in context
To anyone but myself, who had a great love for the sea, the hours would have seemed long and monotonous; but the daily walks on the platform, when I steeped myself in the reviving air of the ocean, the sight of the rich waters through the windows of the saloon, the books in the library, the compiling of my memoirs, took up all my time, and left me not a moment of ennui or weariness.
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The night was cold and still; the family had all retired to rest but Villefort, who alone remained up, and worked till five o'clock in the morning, reviewing the last interrogatories made the night before by the examining magistrates, compiling the depositions of the witnesses, and putting the finishing stroke to the deed of accusation, which was one of the most energetic and best conceived of any he had yet delivered.
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