Compile

//kəmˈpaɪl// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An act of compiling code.

    "[…] programming team managers assumed the "improved programs" produced through structured programming would not require as many compiles during development."

Verb
  1. 1
    To make by gathering pieces from various sources. transitive

    "Samuel Johnson compiled one of the most influential dictionaries of the English language."

  2. 2
    put together out of existing material wordnet
  3. 3
    To construct; to build. obsolete

    "Before that Merlin dyde, he did intend / A brasen wall in compas to compyle / About Cairmardin […]"

  4. 4
    use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed wordnet
  5. 5
    To achieve (a break) by making a sequence of shots. transitive

    "Steve Davis compiled a 147."

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  1. 6
    get or gather together wordnet
  2. 7
    To use a compiler to process source code and produce executable code. transitive

    "After I compile this program I’ll run it and see if it works."

  3. 8
    To be successfully processed by a compiler into executable code. intransitive

    "There must be an error in my source code because it won’t compile."

  4. 9
    To contain or comprise. obsolete, transitive

    "After ſo long a race as I haue run / Through Faery land, vvhich thoſe ſix books cõpile [compile] / giue leaue to reſt me being halfe fordonne, / and gather to my ſelfe nevv breath avvhile."

  5. 10
    To write; to compose. obsolete

    "They are at their leisure much given to poetry; in which they compile the praises of virtuous men and actions , satires against vice"

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

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