Sekirov Dictionary

compile

/kəmˈpaɪl/

verb 7
noun 1
forms 3

verb7

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To make by gathering pieces from various sources.
- Samuel Johnson compiled one of the most influential dictionaries of the English language.
•
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.
•
To be successfully processed by a compiler into executable code.
- There must be an error in my source code because it won’t compile.
•
To achieve (a break) by making a sequence of shots.
- Steve Davis compiled a 147.
•
(no longer used) To construct; to build.
- Before that Merlin dyde, he did intend / A brasen wall in compas to compyle / About Cairmardin […] — 1590
•
(no longer used) To write; to compose.
- They are at their leisure much given to poetry; in which they compile the praises of virtuous men and actions , satires against vice — 1690
•
(no longer used) To contain or comprise.
- 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. — 1595

noun1

•
An act of compiling code.
- […] programming team managers assumed the "improved programs" produced through structured programming would not require as many compiles during development. — 1985

forms

compiled · compiling · compiles

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