different between compile vs fuse

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.

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: fyo?oz, IPA^(key): /fju?z/
• Hyphenation: fuse
• Rhymes: -u?z

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian fuso and French fusée, from Latin f?sus (“spindle”).

Noun

fuse (plural fuses)

1. A cord that, when lit, conveys the fire to some explosive device.

   Synonym: fuze (US)

3. (manufacturing, mining, military) The mechanism that ignites the charge in an explosive device.

   Synonym: fuze

5. (electrical engineering) A device to prevent the overloading of an electrical circuit, containing a component that melts and interrupts the current when too high a load is passed through it.
6. (figuratively) Indicating a tendency to lose one's temper.

7. A friction match for smokers' use, having a bulbous head which when ignited is not easily blown out even in a gale of wind.
8. A kind of match made of paper impregnated with niter and having the usual igniting tip.

Usage notes

Professional publications about explosives and munitions distinguish the fuse and fuze spellings. The latter is preferred for the sense “mechanism that ignites the charge”.

Derived terms

• blow a fuse
• fusebox
• fuse wire
• short fuse

Translations

Etymology 2

Back-formation from fusion (“to melt”).

Verb

fuse (third-person singular simple present fuses, present participle fusing, simple past and past participle fused)

2. (transitive) To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably.
3. (intransitive) To melt together.
4. To furnish with or install a fuse.
5. (organic chemistry) To form a bicyclic compound from two similar or different types of ring such that two or more atoms are shared between the resulting rings

Synonyms

• (mix indistinguishably): See also Thesaurus:homogenize
• (melt together): meld, smelt

Translations

Anagrams

• feus

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: fusent, fuses

Verb

fuse

1. first-person singular present indicative of fuser
2. third-person singular present indicative of fuser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of fuser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of fuser
5. second-person singular imperative of fuser

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uze

Adjective

fuse

1. feminine plural of fuso

Noun

fuse f pl

1. plural of fusa

Participle

fuse f pl

1. feminine plural of fuso

Verb

fuse

1. third-person singular past historic of fondere

Latin

Participle

f?se

1. vocative masculine singular of f?sus

Adverb

f?s? (comparative f?sius, superlative f?sissim?)

1. widely, extensively
2. in great detail
3. loosely, roughly

References

• fuse in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fuse in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fuse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

fuse (present tense fuser, past tense fuste, past participle fust)

1. rush

Adjective

fuse

1. inflection of fus:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

References

• “fuse” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• fusa (verb) (a infinitive)

Verb

fuse (present tense fusar, past tense fusa, past participle fusa, passive infinitive fusast, present participle fusande, imperative fus)

1. rush

Adjective

fuse

1. inflection of fus:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural
2. neuter of fusen

References

• “fuse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?fu.se]

Etymology 1

Verb

fuse

1. third-person singular simple perfect indicative of fi: he/she has been

Synonyms

• fu (informal)

Etymology 2

Noun

fuse n

1. indefinite plural of fus

Venetian

Verb

fuse

1. first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of èser
2. third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of èser
3. third-person plural imperfect subjunctive of èser