Build vs. Compile — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Build and Compile
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Build
To form by combining materials or parts; construct.
Compile
To gather into a single book.
Build
To order, finance, or supervise the construction of
The administration built several new housing projects.
Compile
To put together or compose from materials gathered from several sources
Compile an encyclopedia.
Build
To develop or give form to according to a plan or process; create
Build a nation.
Built a successful business out of their corner grocery store.
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Compile
(Computers) To translate (a program) into machine language.
Build
To increase or strengthen by adding gradually to
Money building interest in a savings account.
Build support for a political candidate.
Compile
(transitive) To put together; to assemble; to make by gathering things from various sources.
Build
To establish a basis for; found or ground
Build an argument on fact.
Compile
(obsolete) To construct; to build.
Build
To make something by combining materials or parts.
Compile
To achieve (a break) by making a sequence of shots.
Steve Davis compiled a 147.
Build
To engage in the construction or design of buildings
"Each of the three architects built in a different style" (Dwight Macdonald).
Compile
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.
Build
To develop in magnitude or extent
Clouds building on the horizon.
Compile
To be successfully processed by a compiler into executable code.
There must be an error in my source code because it won't compile.
Build
To progress toward a maximum, as of intensity
Suspense building from the opening scene to the climax.
Compile
To contain or comprise.
Build
The physical makeup of a person or thing, especially one's physique
An athletic build.
Compile
(obsolete) To write; to compose.
Build
(Computers) Any of various versions of a software product as it is being developed for release to users.
Compile
(programming) An act of compiling code.
Build
(transitive) To form (something) by combining materials or parts.
Compile
To put together; to construct; to build.
Before that Merlin died, he did intendA brazen wall in compass to compile.
Build
(transitive) To develop or give form to (something) according to a plan or process.
Compile
To contain or comprise.
Which these six books compile.
Build
(transitive) To increase or strengthen (something) by adding gradually to.
Compile
To put together in a new form out of materials already existing; esp., to put together or compose out of materials from other books or documents.
He [Goldsmith] compiled for the use of schools a History of Rome.
Build
(transitive) To establish a basis for (something).
Compile
To write; to compose.
Build
(intransitive) To form by combining materials or parts.
Compile
To process (computer program source code) with a compiler{2} to produce an assembly-language program or an executable program in machine language.
Build
(intransitive) To develop in magnitude or extent.
Compile
Get or gather together;
I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife
She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis
She rolled up a small fortune
Build
To construct (software) by compiling its source code.
Compile
Put together out of existing material;
Compile a list
Build
To be converted into software by compilation, usually with minimal human intervention.
This code won’t build any more. Have you made any changes?
Compile
Use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed
Build
The physique of a human or animal body, or other object; constitution or structure.
Rugby players are of sturdy build.
Build
Any of various versions of a software product as it is being developed for release to users.
The computer company has introduced a new prototype build to beta testers.
Build
A structure, such as a building, statue, pool or forest, or a configuration of a character's items or skills, created by the player.
I made a build that looked like the Parthenon in that game.
Build
To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise.
Nor aught availed him nowTo have built in heaven high towers.
Build
To raise or place on a foundation; to form, establish, or produce by using appropriate means.
Who builds his hopes in air of your good looks.
Build
To increase and strengthen; to increase the power and stability of; to settle, or establish, and preserve; - frequently with up; as, to build up one's constitution.
I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up.
Build
To exercise the art, or practice the business, of building.
Build
To rest or depend, as on a foundation; to ground one's self or one's hopes or opinions upon something deemed reliable; to rely; as, to build on the opinions or advice of others.
Build
Form or mode of construction; general figure; make; as, the build of a ship; a great build on a man.
Build
Constitution of the human body
Build
Alternative names for the body of a human being;
Leonardo studied the human body
He has a strong physique
The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
Build
Make by combining materials and parts;
This little pig made his house out of straw
Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer
Build
Form or accumulate steadily;
Resistance to the manager's plan built up quickly
Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border
Build
Build or establish something abstract;
Build a reputation
Build
Improve the cleansing action of;
Build detergents
Build
Order, supervise, or finance the construction of;
The government is building new schools in this state
Build
Give form to, according to a plan;
Build a modern nation
Build a million-dollar business
Build
Be engaged in building;
These architects build in interesting and new styles
Build
Found or ground;
Build a defense on nothing but the accused person's reputation
Build
Bolster or strengthen;
We worked up courage
Build up confidence
Ramp up security in the airports
Build
Develop and grow;
Suspense was building right from the beginning of the opera
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