Compile vs Achieve - What's the difference?
compile | achieve |
To put together; to assemble; to make by gathering things from various sources.
(obsolete) To construct, build.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.3:
(computing) To use a compiler to process source code and produce executable code.
(computing) To be successfully processed by a compiler into executable code.
(obsolete) To contain or comprise.
* Spenser
(obsolete) To write; to compose.
(computing) An act of compiling code.
* 1985 , Robert A Stern, An Introduction to Computers and Information Processing
* 2007 , Scott Meyers, Mike Lee, MAC OS X Leopard: Beyond the Manual
To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.
To carry out successfully; to accomplish.
* I. Taylor
(obsolete) To conclude, finish, especially successfully.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.1:
To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.
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(obsolete) To conclude, to turn out.
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As verbs the difference between compile and achieve
is that compile is while achieve is to succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.compile
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Verb
(compil)- Samuel Johnson compiled one of the most influential dictionaries of the English language.
- Before that Merlin dyde, he did intend / A brasen wall in compas to compyle / About Cairmardin [...].
- After I compile this program I'll run it and see if it works.
- There must be an error in my source code because it won't compile .
- Which these six books compile .
Derived terms
* compiler, compilatorNoun
(en noun)- ...programming team managers assumed the "improved programs" produced through structured programming would not require as many compiles during development.
- Any file with an error or warning on it will be added to this smart group until the next compile .
Anagrams
* English ergative verbs ----achieve
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete )Verb
(achiev)- Supposing faculties and powers to be the same, far more may be achieved in any line by the aid of a capital, invigorating motive than without it.
- Full many Countreyes they did overronne, / From the uprising to the setting Sunne, / And many hard adventures did atchieve [...].
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- Some are born great, some achieve greatness.
- Thou hast achieved our liberty.
- Show all the spoils by valiant kings achieved .
- He hath achieved a maid / That paragons description.