GCC is a compiler while Python is an interpreter.
Source: tatoeba (1006250)
Compiler
//kəmˈpaɪlɚ//
Synonyms for "compiler" (49 found)
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Closest matches (10)
Strong matches (15)
Related words (24)
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6 entriesrelated to
4 entriesTranslations
69 translations across 37 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- съставител noun (a person who compiles)
Catalan
2 entries- compilador noun (computer program)
- compilador noun (a person who compiles)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 編譯器 /编译器 noun (computer program)
- 编者 noun (a person who compiles)
Czech
1 entries- překladač noun (computer program)
Esperanto
1 entries- tradukilo noun (computer program)
Estonian
1 entries- kompilaator noun (computer program)
Finnish
3 entries- kokoaja noun (a person who compiles)
- koostaja noun (a person who compiles)
- kääntäjä noun (computer program)
French
3 entries- compilateur noun (computer program)
- compilateur noun (a person who compiles)
- compilatrice noun (a person who compiles)
German
4 entries- Compiler noun (computer program)
- Kompilator noun (a person who compiles)
- Kompiler noun (computer program)
- Übersetzer noun (computer program)
Greek
2 entries- μεταγλωττιστής noun (computer program)
- συντάκτης noun (a person who compiles)
Hebrew
1 entries- מְהַדֵּר noun (computer program)
Hungarian
2 entries- fordító noun (computer program)
- fordítóprogram noun (computer program)
Icelandic
3 entries- vistþýðandi noun (computer program)
- þýðandi noun (computer program)
- þýðingarforrit noun (computer program)
Indonesian
1 entries- kompilator noun (computer program)
Irish
3 entries- teaglamaí noun (a person who compiles)
- tiomsaitheoir noun (computer program)
- tiomsaitheoir noun (a person who compiles)
Italian
1 entries- compilatore noun (computer program)
Japanese
2 entries- コンパイラ noun (computer program)
- コンパイラ noun (a person who compiles)
Kazakh
1 entries- компилятор noun (computer program)
Korean
1 entries- 컴파일러 noun (computer program)
Latin
1 entries- compīlātor noun (a person who compiles)
Lithuanian
1 entries- kompiliatorius noun (computer program)
Malagasy
1 entries- mpandika noun (computer program)
Māori
1 entries- kaiwhakahiato noun (a person who compiles)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- kompilator noun (computer program)
- kompilator noun (a person who compiles)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- kompilator noun (computer program)
- kompilator noun (a person who compiles)
Persian
3 entries- ترجمیسار noun (computer program)
- ترجمیسال noun (computer program)
- گرداور noun (a person who compiles)
Polish
2 entries- kompilator noun (computer program)
- kompilator noun (a person who compiles)
Portuguese
2 entries- compilador noun (computer program)
- compilador noun (a person who compiles)
Romanian
3 entries- compilatoare noun (a person who compiles)
- compilator noun (computer program)
- compilator noun (a person who compiles)
Russian
3 entries- компиля́тор noun (computer program)
- компиля́тор noun (a person who compiles)
- состави́тель noun (a person who compiles)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- kompajler noun (computer program)
- kompilator noun (computer program)
- kompilator noun (a person who compiles)
- kompilatorica noun (a person who compiles)
Spanish
1 entries- compilador noun (computer program)
Swedish
3 entries- kompilator noun (computer program)
- kompilator noun (a person who compiles)
- sammanställare noun (a person who compiles)
Thai
1 entries- คอมไพเลอร์ noun (computer program)
Turkish
1 entries- derleyici noun (computer program)
Ukrainian
1 entries- укладач noun (a person who compiles)
Vietnamese
2 entries- biên dịch viên noun (a person who compiles)
- trình biên dịch noun (computer program)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
"@implementation" is a compiler directive that says you’re about to present the code for the guts of a class.
Source: tatoeba (2756696)
I read the thesis "An Estelle Compiler," by Jacques van Dijk, Estelle being a computer language I was involved with in university summer work.
Source: tatoeba (10685201)
a compiler of poetry anthologies
Source: wiktionary
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