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compile
/kəmˈpaɪl/
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What does compile mean?
verb
- To make by gathering pieces from various sources.
- To achieve (a break) by making a sequence of shots.
- To use a compiler to process source code and produce executable code.
More meanings (5)
verb
- To be successfully processed by a compiler into executable code.
- (obsolete) To construct; to build.
- (obsolete) To contain or comprise.
- (obsolete) To write; to compose.
noun
- An act of compiling code.
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IPA pronunciation
/kəmˈpaɪl/
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V. abridge, abstract, epitomize, summarize; make an abstract, prepare an abstract, draw an abstract, compile an abstract &c.
Longaville Did never sonnet for her sake compile, Nor never lay his wreathed arms athwart His loving bosom to keep down his heart.
More book examples (3)
To compile a register of births is absolutely impossible here.
If I were a writer of books, I would compile a register, with a comment, of the various deaths of men: he who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.
I realized the mathematical truth of their motions, so well known that astronomers compile tables of their positions through the years and the days, and the minutes of a day, with such precision that one coming along over the sea even five years later may, by their aid, find the standard time of any given meridian on the earth.