Compile vs Count - What's the difference?
compile | count |
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 recite numbers in sequence.
To determine the number (of objects in a group).
To be of significance; to matter.
To be an example of something.
* J. A. Symonds
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(obsolete) To take account or note (of).
* Shakespeare
(UK, legal) To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.
The act of or tallying a quantity.
The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted.
A countdown.
(legal) A charge of misconduct brought in a legal proceeding.
(baseball) The number of balls and strikes, respectively, on a batter's in-progress plate appearance.
(obsolete) An object of interest or account; value; estimation.
* Spenser
The male ruler of a county.
A nobleman holding a rank intermediate between dukes and barons.
As verbs the difference between compile and count
is that compile is while count is to recite numbers in sequence.As a noun count is
the act of or tallying a quantity or count can be the male ruler of a county.compile
English
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 ----count
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) counten, from (etyl) conter, from (etyl) ).Verb
(en verb)- This excellent man counted among the best and wisest of English statesmen.
Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.
- No man counts of her beauty.
- (Burrill)
Derived terms
* count one's blessings * count outNoun
(en noun)- Give the chairs a quick count to check if we have enough.
- He has a 3-2 count with the bases loaded.
- all his care and count