compile

From Middle English compilen, from Old French compiler, from Latin compīlō (“heap, plunder”, verb).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəmˈpaɪ.əl/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /kəmˈpaɪ.əl/
• Rhymes: -aɪl

compile (third-person singular simple present compiles, present participle compiling, simple past and past participle compiled)

1. (transitive) To put together; to assemble; to make by gathering things from various sources.

   Samuel Johnson compiled one of the most influential dictionaries of the English language.

2. (obsolete) To construct; to build.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:

     Before that Merlin dyde, he did intend / A brasen wall in compas to compyle / About Cairmardin […]

3. (transitive, snooker) To achieve (a break) by making a sequence of shots.

   Steve Davis compiled a 147.

4. (transitive, programming) 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.

5. (intransitive, programming) To be successfully processed by a compiler into executable code.

   There must be an error in my source code because it won't compile.

6. (obsolete, transitive) To contain or comprise.
   • 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “(please specify the sonnet number or title)”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, OCLC 932931864; reprinted in Amoretti and Epithalamion (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas […], 1927, OCLC 474036557:

     Which these six books compile.

7. (obsolete) To write; to compose.
   • 1690, William Temple, “Of Heroick Virtue”, in Miscellanea. The Second Part. [...], 2nd edition, London: […] J. R. for Ri[chard] and Ra[lph] Simpson, […], OCLC 863624292, section II, page 188:

     They are at their leisure much given to poetry; in which they compile the praises of virtuous men and actions , satires against vice

• compiler, compilator

compile (plural compiles)

1. (programming) An act of compiling code.
   • 1985, Robert A Stern, An Introduction to Computers and Information Processing:

     […] programming team managers assumed the "improved programs" produced through structured programming would not require as many compiles during development.

   • 2007, Scott Meyers, Mike Lee, MAC OS X Leopard: Beyond the Manual

     Any file with an error or warning on it will be added to this smart group until the next compile.

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compile

1. inflection of compiler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

compile

1. inflection of compilar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

compile

1. inflection of compilar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative