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compile

To translate a program written in a high-level programming language into machine language. See compiler.



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A skillful individual in his closet with all the local codes before him, might compile a law on some subjects of taxation for the whole union, without any aid from oral information, and it may be expected that whenever internal taxes may be necessary, and particularly in cases requiring uniformity throughout the States, the more simple objects will be preferred.
But the men who compile the Sailing Directions have never heard of the change that was worked in the hearts of the inhabitants, who, not many years ago, cut off a big bark and killed all hands with the exception of the second mate.
I can very confidently announce one or another law, which throws itself into relief and form, but I am too young yet by some ages to compile a code.
 
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