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

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King