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Confect vs Compile - What's the difference?

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In obsolete terms the difference between confect and compile

is that confect is a rich, sweet, food item made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts; a confection, comfit while compile is to write; to compose.

confect

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To make up, prepare, compound, construct, assemble, form, mix, mingle or put together by combining ingredients or materials; to concoct.
    • The woman confected a home-remedy for the traveler's illness .
    The young bride's friends confected a dress from odds and ends of fabric.
    [My joys] are still confected with some fears.'' -- ''Stirling
  • * 1629 , , Travels in Persia
  • *:Of this were confected the famous everlasting lamps and tapers.
  • (obsolete) To make into a confection; to prepare as a candy, sweetmeat, preserve, or the like.
  • *1613 , , Brittania's Pastorals , book 1, song 2
  • *:Saffron confected in Cilicia,

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A rich, sweet, food item made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts; a confection, comfit.
  • * Harvey
    • At supper eat a pippin roasted and sweetened with sugar of roses and caraway confects .
  • * 1889 ,
    • She made salves and eyewaters, powders and confects , cordials and persico, orangeflower water and cherry brandy, each in its due season, and all of the best.

    Related terms

    * confection * confectionary * confectionery * confectioner

    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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