Definition of "compile"

compile

/kəmˈpaɪl/

verb
third-person singular simple present compiles, present participle compiling, simple past and past participle compiled
1. (transitive) To make by gathering pieces from various sources.
2. (obsolete) To construct; to build.
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  Before that Merlin dyde, he did intend / A brasen wall in compas to compyle / About Cairmardin […]
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
3. (transitive, snooker) To achieve (a break) by making a sequence of shots.
4. (transitive, programming) To use a compiler to process source code and produce executable code.
5. (intransitive, programming) To be successfully processed by a compiler into executable code.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To contain or comprise.
  Quotations
  Which these six books compile.
  1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “(please specify the sonnet number or title)”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby; reprinted in Amoretti and Epithalamion (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas […], 1927,
7. (obsolete) To write; to compose.
  Quotations
  They are at their leisure much given to poetry; in which they compile the praises of virtuous men and actions , satires against vice
  1690, William Temple, “Of Heroick Virtue”, in Miscellanea. The Second Part. [...], 2nd edition, London: […] J. R. for Ri[chard] and Ra[lph] Simpson, […], section II, page 188
noun
plural compiles
1. (programming) An act of compiling code.
  Quotations
  […] programming team managers assumed the "improved programs" produced through structured programming would not require as many compiles during development.
  1985, Robert A Stern, An Introduction to Computers and Information Processing
  Any file with an error or warning on it will be added to this smart group until the next compile.
  2007, Scott Meyers, Mike Lee, MAC OS X Leopard: Beyond the Manual

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