# compile
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English compilen, from Old French compiler, from Latin compīlō (“to plunder”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /kəmˈpaɪl/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General Australian) IPA: /kəmˈpɑɪl/
* Rhymes: -aɪl

### 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.
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:Before that Merlin dyde, he did intend / A brasen wall in compas to compyle / About Cairmardin […]
* (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 thoſe 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, 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

#### Hyponyms

* cross-compile
* transcompile

#### Derived terms

* autocompile
* compilability
* compilable
* compiland
* compilation
* compilement
* compiler, compilator
* decompile
* miscompile
* noncompiled
* noncompiling
* precompile
* recompile
* uncompile
* uncompiled

#### Translations
### 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.

#### Derived terms

* compile time

### Anagrams

* polemic

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

compile
* inflection of compiler:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

## Galician
### Verb

compile
* inflection of compilar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Portuguese
### Verb

compile
* inflection of compilar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Spanish
### Verb

compile
* inflection of compilar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative