Definition of Compiling

1. Noun. The act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list). "The job of compiling the inventory took several hours"

Exact synonyms: Compilation
Generic synonyms: Aggregation, Assembling, Collecting, Collection
Derivative terms: Compile, Compile, Compile, Compile

Definition of Compiling

1. Verb. (present participle of compile) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Compiling

1. compile [v] - See also: compile

Lexicographical Neighbors of Compiling

compilated
compilates
compilating
compilation
compilations
compilator
compilators
compilatory
compile
compile time
compiled
compilement
compiler
compilers
compiles
compiling (current term)
compiling program
comping
compings
compital
complacence
complacences
complacencies
complacency
complacent
complacential
complacently
complain
complainable
complainant

Literary usage of Compiling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Campus Crime and Security at Postsecondary Education Institutions by Laurie Lewis (1997)
"This PEQIS study asked institutions which one set of definitions the institution used for compiling their crime statistics for the targeted crimes: the FBI ..."

2. Forms of Pleading in Actions for Legal Or Equitable Relief: Prepared with by Austin Abbott, Carlos Coolidge Alden (1898)
"The Same, for Editing or compiling- a Book. As in preceding forms, inserting at the *, in compiling and editing a certain book entitled " The ," and in ..."

3. Cost Accounting, Theory and Practice by Jerome Lee Nicholson (1913)
"CHAPTER VIII compiling THE COST DATA With the cost data once at hand, as found in the various material and time reports, the next step is to arrange and ..."

4. Estee's Pleadings, Practice and Forms by Morris March Estee, John Haynes (1878)
"Allegation for Editing and compiling a Hook. [TITLE.] The plaintiff complains, and alleges: I. That the defendant is indebted to the plaintiff in the sum of ..."

5. Street Railway Accounting: A Manual of Operating Practice for Electric Railways by Irville Augustus May (1917)
"compiling Earnings—By Stations The earnings of the road must now be figured ... compiling Earnings—By Divisions In compiling the earnings of divisions the ..."

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