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Compiled vs Accumulated - What's the difference?

compiled | accumulated |

As verbs the difference between compiled and accumulated

is that compiled is (compile) while accumulated is (accumulate).

compiled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (compile)
  • Anagrams

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    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 ----

    accumulated

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (accumulate)

  • accumulate

    English

    Verb

    (accumulat)
  • To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass.
  • He wishes to accumulate a sum of money.
  • To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.
  • * Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates , and men decay. -
  • Synonyms

    * collect * pile up * store * amass * gather * aggregate * heap together * hoard * proliferate

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (poetic, rare) Collected; accumulated.