different between group vs compile

English

Alternative forms

• groop (non-standard)
• groupe (obsolete)

Etymology

From French groupe (“cluster, group”), from Italian gruppo, groppo (“a knot, heap, group, bag (of money)”), from Vulgar Latin *cruppo, Renaissance Latin grupus, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“lump, round mass, body, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to crumple, bend, crawl”). Cognate with German Kropf (“crop, craw, bunch”), Old English cropp, croppa (“cluster, bunch, sprout, flower, berry, ear of corn, crop”), Dutch krop (“craw”), Icelandic kroppr (“hump, bunch”). Doublet of crop and croup.

Pronunciation

• enPR: gro?op, IPA^(key): /??u?p/
• Rhymes: -u?p

Noun

group (plural groups)

1. A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.

2. (group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
   • 1977, Roger C. Lyndon, Paul E. Schupp, Combinatorial Group Theory, Springer, page 192,

     Throughout this section, we shall assume the existence of finitely presented groups with unsolvable word problem.

   • 1992, Svetlana Katok, Fuchsian Groups, University of Chicago Press, page 112,

     In this chapter we give some examples of Fuchsian groups. The most interesting and important ones are the so-called "arithmetic" Fuchsian groups, i.e., discrete subgroups of PSL(2,R) obtained by some "arithmetic" operations. One such construction we have already seen: if we choose all matrices of SL(2,R) with integer coefficients, then the corresponding elements of PSL(2,R) form the modular group PSL(2,Z).

   • 2007, Zhong-Qi Ma, Group Theory for Physicists, World Scientific, page 277,

     In Chap. 4 the fundamental concepts on Lie groups have been introduced through the SO(3) group and its covering group SU(2).

3. (geometry, archaic) An effective divisor on a curve.
4. A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.

5. (astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
6. (chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
7. (chemistry) A functional group.

8. (sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society.
9. (military) An air force formation.
10. (geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.
11. (computing) A number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.
12. An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.
13. (music) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.
14. (sports) A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.
15. (business) A commercial organization.

Synonyms

• (number of things or persons being in some relation to each other): collection, set
• (people who perform music together): band, ensemble
• See also Thesaurus:group

Hypernyms

• (in group theory): monoid

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• subgroup

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Gulf Arabic: ?????
• ? Japanese: ???? (gur?pu)
• ? Korean: ?? (geurup)
• ? Tongan: kulupu

Translations

References

• group on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

group (third-person singular simple present groups, present participle grouping, simple past and past participle grouped)

1. (transitive) To put together to form a group.

   group the dogs by hair colour

2. (intransitive) To come together to form a group.

Synonyms

• (put together to form a group): amass, categorise/categorize, classify, collect, collect up, gather, gather together, gather up; see also Thesaurus:round up
• (come together to form a group): assemble, begather, foregather, throng; see also Thesaurus:assemble

Translations

Further reading

• group in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• group in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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.