compile.
To make by gathering pieces from various sources.
Meaning & usage
To make by gathering pieces from various sources.
Samuel Johnson compiled one of the most influential dictionaries of the English language.
To construct; to build.
To achieve (a break) by making a sequence of shots.
Steve Davis compiled a 147.
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.
To be successfully processed by a compiler into executable code.
There must be an error in my source code because it won’t compile.
To contain or comprise.
To write; to compose.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English compilen, from Old French compiler, from Latin compīlō (“to plunder”).
An act of compiling code.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English compilen, from Old French compiler, from Latin compīlō (“to plunder”).
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