COMPILE


Meaning of COMPILE in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

compile a list formal (= write a list )

They’ve compiled a list of children’s clubs and organizations.

compile/collect/gather statistics

Police have not yet compiled statistics for this year.

draw up/compile a shortlist

The panel will draw up a shortlist of candidates.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

book

All of these have assisted me in compiling this book .

They learn how to compile and use book collections in school, in College and in children's libraries.

collection

A man called Bukhari went around after Muhammad died and spent sixteen years compiling his collection .

For ten years he lived in the city, listening to jazz on the radio and compiling an impressive record collection .

They learn how to compile and use book collections in school, in College and in children's libraries.

dictionary

In his first book, Talking With Horses, he even went to the extent of compiling a dictionary of horse vocabulary!

figures

It is our business to collect, compile and publish figures .

The problem with this type of measure is that compiling the figures is a time-consuming and essentially clerical task.

information

Their aim is to compile information which will send a frosty message to government environmental ministers.

Later chroniclers attempted to compile this information into histories of the Empire, and some ventured to make lists of reigning Emperors.

If he compiled this piece of information himself we have the right to know how he did it.

Full client participation is essential to ensure accuracy when compiling the information model.

It has taken Warren Ogden nearly 30 years to compile the information on these machines which began in the mid 1950s.

A councillor has no right to require an officer of the council to compile information for him.

Lord knows, it took long enough to compile all the information stored in there.

list

Elizabeth compiled the following list , with support, of what she likes about living in her own home.

The company said Sokol and Frazier are compiling a list of potential new directors.

If you enjoy games, why not compile a list of objective test questions to use in Trivial Pursuits?

Writer Randall Lane of Forbes magazine compiles an annual list of what athletes earn.

The software then compiles a list of who has the file.

A partial accounting compiled by his secretary lists 135.

When you've compiled a list , hop across to a couple and check them out.

It would allow staff members to plan future events and meetings as well as to compile a list for holiday cards.

record

Leeds are compiling an atrocious record in recent cup competitions.

Stallings, 37, has compiled an 82-42 record in four season at Illinois State.

Fuller compiled a 20-36 record at San Diego during his two years there.

He was the head coach at Eastern Michigan from 1985-96, compiling an 185-132 record .

register

Will local authorities be required to compile a register of people entitled to rebates before the council tax is implemented?

Section 143 requires local authorities to compile registers of land that might be contaminated and open them for public inspection.

report

Anita Hardin of the Sentinel staff compiled this report .

For example, the blizzard hit during the same week the government surveys workers and employers to compile the January employment report .

statistics

The Anti-Defamation League has compiled hate crime statistics from law enforcement throughout the county and recorded 413 incidents from 1992-94.

Government officials now compile and release statistics quarterly, not monthly.

SkyCorder, which looks like a pager, uses a pressure sensor to gather information and a microprocessor to compile the statistics .

He compiled statistics and asked Marina a hundred questions about food prices, customs, etc.

table

There are of course difficulties in compiling any such table .

A capable mathematician and astronomer, he compiled detailed planetary tables for astrological use.

years

She began compiling the listings seven years ago as a public service.

■ VERB

help

Arthur D.. Little has been retained to help compile the specifications, it was learned yesterday.

Spring focus: Burks was the key to an offense that helped the Giants compile baseball's best regular-season record.

use

The U.S. government's role was to use intercepted communications to compile intelligence on Escobar's support structure.

Requisitions are used to compile an issue analysis sheet. 7.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

A.C. Nielsen Co. compiles the television ratings.

The book was compiled by a panel of experts, working in conjunction with the publisher.

They are compiling a dictionary of new words.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Government officials now compile and release statistics quarterly, not monthly.

Having created a new routine it should be compiled in the normal way and then linked as described on in section 23.1.

If he compiled this piece of information himself we have the right to know how he did it.

Michael Atherton compiled a watchful 60 in the first innings.

Most insurers and health-maintenance organizations compile formularies with committees of doctors and druggists.

Their aim is to compile information which will send a frosty message to government environmental ministers.

Together we compiled an article for publication.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.