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Word Meanings - COMPILE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To put together; to construct; to build. Before that Merlin died, he did intend A brazen wall in compass to compile. Spenser. 2. To contain or comprise. Which these six books compile. Spenser. 3. To put together in a new form out of materials

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1. To put together; to construct; to build. Before that Merlin died, he did intend A brazen wall in compass to compile. Spenser. 2. To contain or comprise. Which these six books compile. Spenser. 3. To put together in a new form out of materials already existing; esp., to put together or compose out of materials from other books or documents. He compiled for the use of schools a History of Rome. Macaulay. 4. To write; to compose. Sir W. Temple.

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  • CONSTRUCT
    together, to construct; con- + struere to pile up, set in order. See 1. To put together the constituent parts of in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edlifice. 2. To devise; to invent; to set in order;
  • ADJUSTIVE
    Tending to adjust.
  • SETTLEMENT
    A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it. 2. That which settles,
  • COMPOSE
    To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all
  • WRITER
    1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk. They that handle the pen of the writer. Judg. v. 14. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Ps. xlv. 1. 2. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer
  • COMPOSER
    1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and
  • CONSTRUCTIVELY
    In a constructive manner; by construction or inference. A neutral must have notice of a blockade, either actually by a formal information, or constructively by notice to his government. Kent.
  • CONSTRUCTIVE
    1. Having ability to construct or form; employed in construction; as, to exhibit constructive power. The constructive fingers of Watts. Emerson. 2. Derived from, or depending on, construction or interpretation; not directly expressed, but inferred.
  • SETTLE
    1. A seat of any kind. "Upon the settle of his majesty" Hampole. 2. A bench; especially, a bench with a high back. 3. A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part. And from the bottom upon the ground, even
  • WRITERSHIP
    The office of a writer.
  • FRAMEWORK
    1. The work of framing, or the completed work; the frame or constructional part of anything; as, the framework of society. A staunch and solid piece of framework. Milton. 2. Work done in, or by means of, a frame or loom.
  • ADJUSTING PLANE; ADJUSTING SURFACE
    A small plane or surface, usually capable of adjustment but not of manipulation, for preserving lateral balance in an aëroplane or flying machine.
  • FRAMER
    One who frames; as, the framer of a building; the framers of the Constitution.
  • CONSTRUCTION
    The arrangement and connection of words in a sentence; syntactical arrangement. Some particles . . . in certain constructions have the sense of a whole sentence contained in them. Locke. 4. The method of construing, interpreting, or explaining a
  • CONSTRUCTIONIST
    One who puts a certain construction upon some writing or instrument, as the Constitutions of the United States; as, a strict constructionist; a broad constructionist.
  • COMPOSED
    Free from agitation; calm; sedate; quiet; tranquil; self- possessed. The Mantuan there in sober triumph sate, Composed his posture, and his look sedate. Pope. -- Com*pos"ed*ly (, adv. -- Com*pos"ed*ness, n.
  • SETTLER
    1. One who settles, becomes fixed, established, etc. 2. Especially, one who establishes himself in a new region or a colony; a colonist; a planter; as, the first settlers of New England. 3. That which settles or finishes; hence, a blow, etc., which
  • FRAME-UP
    A conspiracy or plot, esp. for a malicious or evil purpose, as to incriminate a person on false evidence.
  • ADJUSTAGE
    Adjustment.
  • WRITE
    1. To form characters, letters, or figures, as representative of sounds or ideas; to express words and sentences by written signs. Chaucer. So it stead you, I will write, Please you command. Shak. 2. To be regularly employed or occupied in writing,
  • UNFRAME
    To take apart, or destroy the frame of. Dryden.
  • REWRITE
    To write again. Young.
  • PLAYWRITER
    A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
  • STORY-WRITER
    1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
  • CAPACIFY
    To quality. The benefice he is capacified and designed for. Barrow.
  • DECOMPOSE
    To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
  • MISADJUSTMENT
    Wrong adjustment; unsuitable arrangement.
  • UNDERWRITER
    One who underwrites his name to the conditions of an insurance policy, especially of a marine policy; an insurer.
  • READJUSTMENT
    A second adjustment; a new or different adjustment.
  • RECONSTRUCT
    To construct again; to rebuild; to remodel; to form again or anew. Regiments had been dissolved and reconstructed. Macaulay.
  • UNWRITE
    To cancel, as what is written; to erase. Milton.
  • DISSETTLEMENT
    The act of unsettling, or the state of being unsettled. Marvell.
  • READJUST
    To adjust or settle again; to put in a different order or relation; to rearrange.

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