Associations to the word «Compile»

Wiktionary

COMPILE, verb. (transitive) To put together; to assemble; to make by gathering things from various sources.
COMPILE, verb. (obsolete) To construct, build.
COMPILE, verb. (transitive) (computing) To use a compiler to process source code and produce executable code.
COMPILE, verb. (intransitive) (computing) To be successfully processed by a compiler into executable code.
COMPILE, verb. (obsolete) (transitive) To contain or comprise.
COMPILE, verb. (obsolete) To write; to compose.
COMPILE, noun. (computing) An act of compiling code.
COMPILE TIME, noun. The point at which a program is converted from source code to machine code; literally the time of compilation.

Dictionary definition

COMPILE, verb. Get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune".
COMPILE, verb. Put together out of existing material; "compile a list".
COMPILE, verb. Use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed.

Wise words

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley