compile
Plural: compiles
Verb
Verb Forms: compiled, compiling, compiles
- To collect and arrange information into a volume or list.
- get or gather together
- put together out of existing material
- "compile a list"
- use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed
- To make by gathering pieces from various sources.
- To construct; to build.
- To achieve (a break) by making a sequence of shots.
- To use a compiler to process source code and produce executable code.
- To be successfully processed by a compiler into executable code.
- To contain or comprise.
- To write; to compose.
Noun
- An act of compiling code.
Examples
- After I compile this program I’ll run it and see if it works.
- He used a word list to compile a roster of all playable seven-letter words.
- Samuel Johnson compiled one of the most influential dictionaries of the English language.
- Steve Davis compiled a 147.
- There must be an error in my source code because it won’t compile.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English compilen, from Old French compiler, from Latin compīlō (“to plunder”).
Synonyms
accumulate, amass, collect, compose, hoard, pile up, roll up
Scrabble Score: 13
compile: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcompile: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
compile: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary