different between bunch vs compile

English

Etymology

From Middle English bunche, bonche (“hump, swelling”), of uncertain origin.

Perhaps a variant of *bunge (compare dialectal bung (“heap, grape bunch”)), from Proto-Germanic *bunk?, *bunkô, *bung? (“heap, crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?en??-, *b?éng??us (“thick, dense, fat”). Cognates include Saterland Frisian Bunke (“bone”), West Frisian bonke (“bone, lump, bump”), Dutch bonk (“lump, bone”), Low German Bunk (“bone”), German Bunge (“tuber”), Danish bunke (“heap, pile”), Faroese bunki (“heap, pile”); Hittite [Term?] (/panku/, “total, entire”), Tocharian B pkante (“volume, fatness”), Lithuanian búož? (“knob”), Ancient Greek ????? (pakhús, “thick”), Sanskrit ??? (bahú, “thick; much”)).

Alternatively, perhaps from a variant or diminutive of bump (compare hump/hunch, lump/lunch, etc.); or from dialectal Old French bonge (“bundle”) (compare French bongeau, bonjeau, bonjot), from West Flemish bondje, diminutive of West Flemish bond (“bundle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?nt?/
• Rhymes: -?nt?

Noun

bunch (plural bunches)

1. A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
2. (cycling) The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
3. An informal body of friends.

   • “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, […], the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"

4. (US, informal) A considerable amount.

5. (informal) An unmentioned amount; a number.

6. (forestry) A group of logs tied together for skidding.
7. (geology, mining) An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
   • 1874, David Page, Economic Geology: Or, Geology in Its Relations to the Arts and Manufactures

     The ore may be disseminated throughout the matrix in minute particles, as gold in quartz; in parallel threads, strings, and plates, as with copper; in irregular pockets or bunches

8. (textiles) The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of indication from the midget feeler until a new bobbin is put in the shuttle.
9. An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.

10. A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.

Synonyms

• (group of similar things): cluster, group
• (informal body of friends): pack, group, gang, circle
• (unusual concentration of ore): ore pocket, pocket, pocket of ore, kidney, nest, nest of ore, ore bunch, bunch of ore

Derived terms

• buncha (bunch of)

Translations

Verb

bunch (third-person singular simple present bunches, present participle bunching, simple past and past participle bunched)

1. (transitive) To gather into a bunch.
2. (transitive) To gather fabric into folds.
3. (intransitive) To form a bunch.
4. (intransitive) To be gathered together in folds
5. (intransitive) To protrude or swell
   • 1728, John Woodward, An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England

     Bunching out into a large round knob at one end.

Synonyms

• (form a bunch): cluster, group

Derived terms

• bunch up

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English compilen, from Old French compiler, from Latin comp?l? (“heap, plunder”, verb).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?mp??l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?m?pa?l/
• Rhymes: -a?l

Verb

compile (third-person singular simple present compiles, present participle compiling, simple past and past participle compiled)

1. (transitive) To put together; to assemble; to make by gathering things from various sources.

2. (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 [...].

3. (transitive, programming) To use a compiler to process source code and produce executable code.

4. (intransitive, programming) To be successfully processed by a compiler into executable code.

5. (obsolete, transitive) To contain or comprise.

   • Which these six books compile.

6. (obsolete) To write; to compose.

   • They are at their leisure much given to poetry; in which they compile the praises of virtuous men and actions , satires against vice

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• compiler, compilator

Translations

Noun

compile (plural compiles)

1. (programming) An act of compiling code.
   • 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

• polemic

French

Verb

compile

1. inflection of compiler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Portuguese

Verb

compile

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of compilar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of compilar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of compilar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of compilar

Spanish

Verb

compile

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of compilar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of compilar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of compilar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of compilar.