Compile vs Collect - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between compile and collect

is that compile is to put together; to assemble; to make by gathering things from various sources while collect is to infer; to conclude.

As an adjective collect is

to be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.

As an adverb collect is

with payment due from the recipient.

compile

English

Verb

(compil)

To put together; to assemble; to make by gathering things from various sources.

Samuel Johnson compiled one of the most influential dictionaries of the English language.

(obsolete) To construct, build.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.3:

Before that Merlin dyde, he did intend / A brasen wall in compas to compyle / About Cairmardin [...].

(computing) 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.

(computing) 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) To contain or comprise.

* Spenser

Which these six books compile .

(obsolete) To write; to compose.

Derived terms

* compiler, compilator

Noun

(en noun)

(computing) 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 .

Anagrams

* English ergative verbs ----

collect

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) collecten, from (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

To gather together; amass.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)

, title= Geothermal Energy , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.}}

To get; particularly, get from someone.

To accumulate a number of similar or related (objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.

To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare (gather), (get).)

* 1992 , (Hilary Mantel), A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 292-3:

the riot is so great that it is very difficult to collect what is being said.

* John Locke

which sequence, I conceive, is very ill collected .

To collect payments.

To come together in a group or mass.

To collect objects as a hobby.

To infer; to conclude.

* South

Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons.

Adjective

(-)

To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.

It was to be a collect delivery, but no-one was available to pay.

Adverb

(-)

With payment due from the recipient.

I had to call collect .

Derived terms

* call collect * collect one's thoughts * collect one's wits * collect up * collectible * collection * collector * recollect, recollection

Etymology 2

(Wikipedia) From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun) (sometimes capitalized)

(Christianity) The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer.

He used the day's collect as the basis of his sermon.

External links

* * * 1000 English basic words