compiler

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: compiler

1	n	a person who compiles information (as for reference purposes)
2	n	(computer science) a program that decodes instructions written in a higher order language and produces an assembly language program

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: compiler

Examples:: show 10 examples...; hide 10 examples...; Nathaniel Bailey
English lexicographer who was the first to treat etymology consistently; his work was used as a reference by Samuel Johnson (died in 1742); Sir William Alexander Craigie
English lexicographer who was a joint editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (1872-1966); John Florio
English lexicographer remembered for his Italian and English dictionary (1553-1625); Henry Watson Fowler
English lexicographer who wrote a well-known book on English usage (1858-1933); Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer (1709-1784); Pierre Athanase Larousse
French lexicographer (1817-1875); Maximilien Paul Emile Littre
French lexicographer (1801-1881); Sir James Augustus Henry Murray
Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915); Noah Webster
United States lexicographer (1758-1843); Joseph Emerson Worcester
United States lexicographer who was accused of plagiarism by Noah Webster (1784-1865)

Types:: show 5 types...; hide 5 types...; encyclopaedist, encyclopedist
a person who compiles information for encyclopedias; lexicographer, lexicologist
a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language; etymologist
a lexicographer who specializes in etymology; neologist
a lexicographer of new words and expressions; synonymist
a student of synonyms

Type of:: author, writer
writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)

Types:: show 4 types...; hide 4 types...; C compiler
a compiler for programs written in C; Fortran compiler
a compiler for programs written in FORTRAN; LISP compiler
a compiler for programs written in LISP; Pascal compiler
a compiler for programs written in Pascal

Type of:: computer program, computer programme, program, programme
(computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute

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