Verb
compile (third-person singular simple present compiles, present participle compiling, simple past and past participle compiled)
- (transitive) To make by gathering pieces from various sources.
Samuel Johnson compiled one of the most influential dictionaries of the English language.
- (obsolete) To construct; to build.
- (transitive, snooker) To achieve (a break) by making a sequence of shots.
Steve Davis compiled a 147.
- (transitive, programming) 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.
- (intransitive, programming) To be successfully processed by a compiler into executable code.
There must be an error in my source code because it won’t compile.
- (obsolete, transitive) To contain or comprise.
1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet LXXX”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, signature F, verso:After ſo long a race as I haue run / Through Faery land, vvhich theſe ſix books cõpile [compile], / giue leaue to reſt me being halfe fordonne, / and gather to my ſelfe nevv breath avvhile.
- (obsolete) To write; to compose.
1690, William Temple, Miscellanea. The Second Part. […], London: […] T. M. for Ri[chard] and Ra[lph] Simpson, […], →OCLC, section II, [https:// page 188]:They are at their leisure much given to poetry; in which they compile the praises of virtuous men and actions , satires against vice
Translations
assemble from a collection
- Arabic: تجميع (ar)
- Bulgarian: събирам (bg) (sǎbiram), съставям (bg) (sǎstavjam)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 編撰 (zh) (biānzhuàn), 彙編/汇编 (zh) (huìbiān)
- Danish: kompilere
- Dutch: samenstellen (nl)
- Esperanto: kompili (eo)
- Finnish: koota (fi), koostaa (fi)
- French: compiler (fr)
- German: zusammenstellen (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: συντάσσω (suntássō)
- Hungarian: összeállít (hu), fordít (hu)
- Irish: tiomsaigh
- Italian: compilare (it), assemblare (it), predisporre (it), raccogliere (it)
- Japanese: 編集する (ja) (へんしゅうする, henshū suru)
- Maori: whakahiato
- Persian: فراهمیستن (fa), ترجمیستن (fa)
- Polish: kompilować impf, skompilować pf
- Portuguese: compilar (pt)
- Romanian: alcătui (ro) (dintr-o colecție), compila (ro)
- Russian: собира́ть (ru) impf (sobirátʹ), собра́ть (ru) pf (sobrátʹ), составля́ть (ru) impf (sostavljátʹ), соста́вить (ru) pf (sostávitʹ)
- Spanish: compilar (es)
- Swedish: sammanställa (sv), kompilera (sv)
- Turkish: derlemek (tr)
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be successfully processed by a compiler
Noun
compile (plural compiles)
- (programming) An act of compiling code.
1985, Robert A Stern, An Introduction to Computers and Information Processing:[…] programming team managers assumed the "improved programs" produced through structured programming would not require as many compiles during development.
2007, Scott Meyers, Mike Lee, MAC OS X Leopard: Beyond the Manual:Any file with an error or warning on it will be added to this smart group until the next compile.