Associations to the word «Compile»

Wiktionary

COMPILE, verb. (transitive) To put together; to assemble; to make by gathering things from various sources.
COMPILE, verb. (obsolete) To construct, build.
COMPILE, verb. (transitive) (computing) To use a compiler to process source code and produce executable code.
COMPILE, verb. (intransitive) (computing) To be successfully processed by a compiler into executable code.
COMPILE, verb. (obsolete) (transitive) To contain or comprise.
COMPILE, verb. (obsolete) To write; to compose.
COMPILE, noun. (computing) An act of compiling code.
COMPILE TIME, noun. The point at which a program is converted from source code to machine code; literally the time of compilation.

Dictionary definition

COMPILE, verb. Get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune".
COMPILE, verb. Put together out of existing material; "compile a list".
COMPILE, verb. Use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed.

Wise words

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