compileverb/kəmˈpaɪl/

• 1

  To make by gathering pieces from various sources.

  • Samuel Johnson compiled one of the most influential dictionaries of the English language.
  • 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.
• 2

  obsoleteTo construct; to build.

  • Before that Merlin dyde, he did intend / A brasen wall in compas to compyle / About Cairmardin […]
• 3

  ball-gamesgameshobbiesTo achieve (a break) by making a sequence of shots.

  • Steve Davis compiled a 147.
• 4

  computingengineeringmathematicsTo 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

  computingengineeringmathematicsTo be successfully processed by a compiler into executable code.

  • There must be an error in my source code because it won’t compile.
• 6

  obsoleteTo 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.
• 7

  obsoleteTo 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

compilenoun/kəmˈpaɪl/

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  computingengineeringmathematicsAn act of compiling code.

  • […] programming team managers assumed the "improved programs" produced through structured programming would not require as many compiles during development.
  • Any file with an error or warning on it will be added to this smart group until the next compile.