different between compiler vs collector

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman compilour, from Old French compileur, from Latin compilatorem.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

compiler (plural compilers)

1. One who compiles.

   a compiler of poetry anthologies

   my favourite crossword compiler

2. (software compilation) A computer program which transforms source code into object code.

Hyponyms

Descendants

• Serbo-Croatian: kompajler

Translations

Anagrams

• complier, picromel

French

Etymology

From Latin comp?l?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.pi.le/

Verb

compiler

1. (programming) to compile

Conjugation

Further reading

• “compiler” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

comp?ler

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of comp?l?

Old French

Etymology

From Latin compilare (“to plunder, plagiarize”)

Verb

compiler

1. to compile
   • Les Faits des Romains

     Ici commence les fes des Romains, compilé ensemble de Salustes, de Suetoine et de Lucan

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ils, *-ilt are modified to is, it. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants

• English: compile
• French: compiler

English

Alternative forms

• collecter
• collectour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English collectour, from Anglo-Norman collectour, from Late Latin collector, from Latin collig? (“to gather together”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?-l?k't?r
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k??l?kt?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /k??l?kt?(?)/
• Rhymes: -?kt?(?)

Noun

collector (plural collectors)

1. A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.

   He is an avid collector of nineteenth-century postage stamps.

   That old piano is just a big dust collector.
2. A person who is employed to collect payments.

   She works for the government as a tax collector.

   • 1668 July 3rd, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Hou?toun” in The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 547

     Andrew Hou?toun and Adam Mu?het, being Tack?men of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.

3. (electronics) The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.
4. A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.

   • Volumes […] without any of tthe collector's own reflections.

5. (historical) One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.

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6. A major sewer which collects sewerage from a number of smaller branch sewers
7. A mafioso whose task is to collect protection money from small businesses

Derived terms

Related terms

• collect
• collection

Translations