compile
pronunciation
How to pronounce compile in British English:
UK [kəmˈpaɪl]
How to pronounce compile in American English:
US [kəmˈpaɪl]
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- Verb:
- get or gather together
- put together out of existing material
- use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed
Word Origin
- compile
- compile: see pile
- compile (v.)
- early 14c., from Old French compiler "compile, collect" (13c.), from Latin compilare "to plunder, rob," probably originally "bundle together, heap up;" hence "to pack up and carry off," from com- "together" (see com-) + pilare "to compress, ram down." Related: Compiled; compiling.
Example
- 1. Compile the files and make a jar out of these two files .
- 2. You can compile this module with the makefile shown in listing 3 .
- 3. In two thousand years , they couldn 't compile an index ?
- 4. Figures for october will take three to four weeks to compile .
- 5. That makes things difficult for the bean-counters who compile the inflation statistics .