Combine vs Compile - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between combine and compile

is that combine is to have two or more things or properties that function together while compile is to put together; to assemble; to make by gathering things from various sources.

In obsolete terms the difference between combine and compile

is that combine is to bind; to hold by a moral tie while compile is to write; to compose.

As a proper noun Combine

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combine

English

Verb

(combin)

To bring (two or more things or activities) together; to unite.

* (John Dryden)

You with your foes combine , / And seem your own destruction to design.

* Sir (Walter Scott)

So sweet did harp and voice combine .

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To have two or more things or properties that function together.

Joe combines the intelligence of a rock with the honesty of a politician.

To come together; to unite.

two substances that easily combine

(card games) In the game of casino, to play a card which will take two or more cards whose aggregate number of pips equals those of the card played.

(obsolete) To bind; to hold by a moral tie.

* (William Shakespeare)

I am combined by a sacred vow.

Derived terms

* combination * combinable * combinatory * combined * recombine

Synonyms

* fuse * merge * unite

Antonyms

* divide * separate * disunite

Noun

(en noun)

A combine harvester

We can't finish harvesting because our combine is stuck in the mud.

A combination

# Especially, a joint enterprise of whatever legal form for a purpose of business or in any way promoting the interests of the participants, sometimes with monopolistic intentions.

The telecom companies were accused of having formed an illegal combine in order to hike up the network charges.

# An industrial conglomeration in a socialist country, particularly in the former .

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

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