COMPILE meaning: Translate source code into executable

We found 39 dictionaries that define the word compile:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

compile: Merriam-Webster.com
compile: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
compile: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
compile: Collins English Dictionary
compile: Vocabulary.com
Compile, compile: Wordnik
compile: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
compile: Wiktionary
compile: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
compile: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
compile: Infoplease Dictionary
Compile, compile: Dictionary.com
compile: Online Etymology Dictionary
compile: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Compile (company), Compile (publisher), Compile (software company), Compile: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Compile: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
compile: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
compile: Rhymezone
compile: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
compile: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
compile: Free Dictionary
compile: Mnemonic Dictionary
compile: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
compile: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
Compile (computing), Compile (disambiguation), compile: Legal dictionary

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)

Compile: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
Webopedia (No longer online)
I T Glossary (No longer online)
Technopedia (No longer online)
Compile (computing), Compile (disambiguation), compile: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

compile: Medical dictionary
Compile (computing): Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

compile (v.): Cats
compile: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

compile: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To make by gathering pieces from various sources.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To construct; to build.
▸ verb:  (transitive, snooker) To achieve (a break) by making a sequence of shots.
▸ verb:  (transitive, programming) To use a compiler to process source code and produce executable code.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, programming) To be successfully processed by a compiler into executable code.
▸ verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To contain or comprise.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To write; to compose.
▸ noun:  (programming) An act of compiling code.

Similar:

collect, amass, compose, accumulate, hoard, pile up, compilate, Comp, patchwork, assemble, more...

Opposite:

interpret, decompile, disassemble

Types:

C, C++, Java, C#, Objective-C, Python, Ruby, Perl, PHP, Lisp, more...

Phrases:

compile time, compile (computing), cross compile, Compile Heart, compile story, more...

Adjectives:

clean, first, successful, last, static, full, final, separate, incremental, initial, previous

Colors:

black, white, gray, blue, green, red, yellow, orange, purple, brown

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