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/kəmpˈaɪlər/ Listen

noun

Compiler n.

One who compiles; esp., one who makes books by compilation.

(Computers) A computer program that decodes instructions written in a higher-level computer language to produce an assembly-language program or an executable program in machine language.

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Etymology of 'Compiler'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Compiler" Quotes from Famous Books

... enduring than that of many men of greater poetical merit. In Shoe Lane lived also Florio, the compiler of our first Italian Dictionary. Coger's Hall in Shoe Lane attained some celebrity in the latter half of the eighteenth century. It was established for the purpose of debate, and, among others, O'Connell, Wilkes, and Curran, met here to discuss the political questions of the day. On the west ...

— Holborn and Bloomsbury - The Fascination of London • Sir Walter Besant

... young women," the compiler of these memoirs once remarked to a commercial gentleman in a large way, who was showing him over his business, "and for the most part ...

— The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson - By One of the Firm • Anthony Trollope

... The compiler of the fragments of Hosea's speeches in the book bearing the prophet's name—the most fragmentary book in the Bible, and from which this story has been built up—concludes ...

— Stories of the Prophets - (Before the Exile) • Isaac Landman

... bookstores in the country. It was specially constructed, and is not unlike a miniature British Museum Reading-room; there are two galleries, one above the other. The second East End worthy has a literary as well as a bibliopolic interest. Joseph Smith will be better remembered by posterity as the compiler of a 'Catalogue of Friends' Books,' and of the 'Bibliotheca Anti-Quakerana,' than as a bookseller. He was twenty years compiling the former, and is perhaps one of the most striking illustrations of the wisdom of the theory that the bookseller who wishes ...

— The Book-Hunter in London - Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting • William Roberts

... than that which we have here written. Dr Prichard appears nowise unwilling to refer to each author his due share of merit, and is by no means sparing of copious extracts, taken with no partial view of supporting a theory. At the risk of being considered only a compiler, he has, at all events, avoided any ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 • Various

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