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Antonyms for compile

Grammar : Verb
Spell : kuh m-pahyl
Phonetic Transcription : kəmˈpaɪl

Definition of compile

Origin :
  • early 14c., from Old French compiler "compile, collect" (13c.), from Latin compilare "to plunder, rob," probably originally "bundle together, heap up;" hence "to pack up and carry off," from com- "together" (see com-) + pilare "to compress, ram down." Related: Compiled; compiling.
  • verb assemble, accumulate
Example sentences :
  • Then I compile a list of the books that I intend to read, and the order in which they should be read.
  • Extract from : « The Book-Hunter at Home » by P. B. M. Allan
  • We compile this month mainly from the London World of Fashion.
  • Extract from : « The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 » by Various
  • From this table the officers work the ship's way, and compile their journals.
  • Extract from : « The Sailor's Word-Book » by William Henry Smyth
  • He did not write according to copy, nor compile from commonplace books.
  • Extract from : « Ernest Maltravers, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • They, however, compile statistics from data which we furnish.
  • Extract from : « Letters from an Old Railway Official » by Charles DeLano Hine
  • Almost any mediocre can compile a mass of information from the cyclopedia.
  • Extract from : « The Army Mule and Other War Sketches » by Henry A. Castle
  • It is difficult to compile a bibliography that will treat exhaustively of this tribe.
  • Extract from : « The Iowa » by William Harvey Miner
  • To compile a register of births is absolutely impossible here.
  • Extract from : « Bramble-bees and Others » by J. Henri Fabre
  • I could compile a list, a five-foot shelf, for these nights of tempest.
  • Extract from : « Hints to Pilgrims » by Charles Stephen Brooks
  • About 1740 he was invited to compile a Gaelic vocabulary, which was published in 1741.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 » by Various

Synonyms for compile

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