compile

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The output of a Java compile is a. class which is portable to any Java virtual machine.

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  1. transitive verb To gather into a single book.
  2. transitive verb To put together or compose from materials gathered from several sources: compile an encyclopedia.
  3. transitive verb Computer Science To translate (a program) into machine language.

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  • Letting scholars review, compile, and publish those journals directly in the repository can save their time, and encourage rapid, open electronic access.
  • They deserve encouragement while they continue to compile, and neither affect wit, nor presume to reason.' —  Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1
  • I'd spent a couple of hours poring over the yellowing family trees and the family history my grandmother had worked so hard to compile, and I hadn't found a clue. —  Charlaine Harris - Southern Vamp 07 - All Together Dead
  • Desktop GIS is the primary platform for GIS professionals to compile, author, and use geographic information and knowledge. —  Retail Solutions Online Products
  • Adobe Pixel Bender prerelease 6 (version 1.5) expands on previous releases with the ability to create, compile, and preview Pixel ... —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
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  1. Middle English compilen, from Old French compiler, probably from Latin compīlāre, to plunder : com-, com- + pīla, heap (of stones), pillar.

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  1. from Middle English compilen, from Old French compiler, French compiler = Provencal Spanish Portuguese compilar = Italian compilare, from Latin compilare, snatch together and carry off, plunder, pillage (the sense of ‘compile’ appears in deriv. compilatio: see compilation), from com-, together, + pilare, rob: see pill, pillage.
 

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/kəmˈpaɪl/
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