Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

compile

/kəmˈpaɪl/ verb, noun

Forms compiles compiling compiled

  1. verb (transitive) To make by gathering pieces from various sources. “Samuel Johnson compiled one of the most influential dictionaries of the English language.”
  2. verb (obsolete) To construct; to build.
  3. verb (transitive, snooker) To achieve (a break) by making a sequence of shots. “Steve Davis compiled a 147.”
  4. verb (transitive, programming) To use a compiler to process source code and produce executable code. “After I compile this program I’ll run it and see if it works.”
  5. verb (intransitive, programming) To be successfully processed by a compiler into executable code. “There must be an error in my source code because it won’t compile.”
  6. verb (obsolete, transitive) To contain or comprise.
  7. verb (obsolete) To write; to compose.
  8. noun (programming) An act of compiling code.

Synonyms

roll up collect accumulate pile up amass hoard compose

Etymology

From Middle English compilen, from Old French compiler, from Latin compīlō (“to plunder”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To put together; to construct; to build. [Obs.]
  2. verb To contain or comprise. [Obs.]

Etymology [F. compiler, fr.L. compilare to plunder, pillage; com- + pilare to plunder. See Pill, v. t., Pillage.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “compile”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “compile” (best matches first).