compile
See also: compilé
English
Etymology
From Middle English compilen, from Old French compiler, from Latin compīlō (“heap, plunder”, verb).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /kəmpʌɪl/
- (General American) IPA(key): /kəmˈpaɪl/
- Rhymes: -aɪl
Verb
compile (third-person singular simple present compiles, present participle compiling, simple past and past participle compiled)
- (transitive) To put together; to assemble; to make by gathering things from various sources.
- Samuel Johnson compiled one of the most influential dictionaries of the English language.
- (obsolete) To construct, build.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.3:
- Before that Merlin dyde, he did intend / A brasen wall in compas to compyle / About Cairmardin [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.3:
- (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.
- (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.
- (obsolete, transitive) To contain or comprise.
- Spenser
- Which these six books compile.
- Spenser
- (obsolete) To write; to compose.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir W. Temple to this entry?)
Hyponyms
- cross-compile
- transcompile
Derived terms
Translations
assemble from a collection
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produce executable
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be successfully processed by a compiler
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Noun
compile (plural compiles)
- (programming) An act of compiling code.
- 1985, Robert A Stern, An Introduction to Computers and Information Processing
- […] programming team managers assumed the "improved programs" produced through structured programming would not require as many compiles during development.
- 2007, Scott Meyers, Mike Lee, MAC OS X Leopard: Beyond the Manual
- Any file with an error or warning on it will be added to this smart group until the next compile.
- 1985, Robert A Stern, An Introduction to Computers and Information Processing
French
Verb
compile
- inflection of compiler:
- first- and third-person singular present indicative and subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Portuguese
Spanish
Verb
compile
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of compilar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of compilar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of compilar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of compilar.
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