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See also: compilé
English
Etymology
From Middle English compilen, from Old French compiler, from Latin compīlō (“to plunder”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /kəmˈpaɪl/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /kəmˈpɑɪl/
- Rhymes: -aɪl
Verb
compile (third-person singular simple present compiles, present participle compiling, simple past and past participle compiled)
- (transitive) To make by gathering pieces from various sources.
- Samuel Johnson compiled one of the most influential dictionaries of the English language.
- 2025 October 15, Vitali Vitaliev, “The recipe for Swiss bliss”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 68:
- So what is it that makes SBB (Swiss national railways) tick? In my humble opinion, two things. Firstly, a comprehensive and set-in-stone integrated timetable (incorporating trains, ferries, cable cars and buses, including the world-famous yellow 'post-autos'), compiled four years in advance and which gets tested twice before it becomes operational.
- (obsolete) To construct; to build.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Before that Merlin dyde, he did intend / A brasen wall in compas to compyle / About Cairmardin […]
- (transitive, snooker) To achieve (a break) by making a sequence of shots.
- Steve Davis compiled a 147.
- (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.
- (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.
- (obsolete, transitive) To contain or comprise.
- 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet LXXX”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, signature F, verso:
- 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.
- (obsolete) To write; to compose.
- 1690, William Temple, Miscellanea. The Second Part. […], London: […] T. M. for Ri[chard] and Ra[lph] Simpson, […], →OCLC, 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
Hyponyms
- cross-compile
- transcompile
Derived terms
Translations
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produce executable
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be successfully processed by a compiler
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Noun
compile (plural compiles)
- (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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