compile
IPA: kʌmpˈaɪɫ
noun
- (programming) An act of compiling code.
verb
- (transitive) To make by gathering pieces from various sources.
- (obsolete) To construct; to build.
- (transitive, snooker) To achieve (a break) by making a sequence of shots.
- (transitive, programming) To use a compiler to process source code and produce executable code.
- (intransitive, programming) To be successfully processed by a compiler into executable code.
- (obsolete, transitive) To contain or comprise.
- (obsolete) To write; to compose.
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Examples of "compile" in Sentences
- The list is too long to compile.
- These are compiled in the form of couplets.
- All the more reason to compile the information.
- The compiler will then try to optimize the result.
- The assembler is a special dialect of the compiler.
- As a lexicographer he compiled collections of archaic and unusual words.
- But machine dependent is not the immaturity of of the ubiquity of compilers.