Dictionary Definition
compile
Verb
1 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" [syn: roll up, collect, accumulate, pile up, amass, hoard]
2 put together out of existing material; "compile
a list" [syn: compose]
3 use a computer program to translate source code
written in a particular programming language into computer-readable
machine code that can be executed
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Verb
- To put together; to assemble; to make by gathering things from
various sources.
- Samuel Johnson compiled one of the most influential dictionaries of the English language.
- 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.
Translations
assemble from a collection
- Finnish: koota
- French: compiler
- German: zusammenstellen
- Hungarian: összeállít
- Portuguese: compilar
- Swedish: sammanställa
produce executable
- Finnish: kääntää
- French: compiler
- German: kompilieren
- Portuguese: compilar
- Swedish: kompilera
French
Verb
- Form of First-person singular present subjunctive, compiler#French|compiler
- Form of Third-person singular present subjunctive, compiler#French|compiler
- Form of Second-person singular imperative, compiler#French|compiler
Extensive Definition
Compile may refer to:
- Compile (software company), a Japanese video game company founded in 1983 (now defunct) that specialized in shoot 'em up and computer puzzle game genres
- Compiler, a computer program (or set of programs) that translates source code written in a computer language into another computer language (the target language)
- Compile, the name of the package manager of GoboLinux, an alternative Linux distribution
compile in Japanese: コンパイル
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accumulate, agglomerate, aggregate, aggroup, amass, assemble, batch, bring together, bulk, bunch, bunch together, bunch up,
clump, cluster, collate, collect, colligate, collocate, combine, compare, compose, conglomerate, corral, cumulate, dig up, draw
together, dredge up, drive together, gather, gather in, gather
together, get in, get together, group, join, juxtapose, lump together, make
up, mass, match, mobilize, muster, order, organize, pair, partner, put together, raise, rake up, rally, round up, scrape together,
systematize, take
up, whip in