Difference between Compose and Compile

What is the difference between Compose and Compile?

Compose as a verb is to make something by merging parts. while Compile as a verb is to put together; to assemble; to make by gathering things from various sources.

Compose

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make something by merging parts. To make up the whole; to constitute. To comprise. To construct by mental labor; to think up; particularly, to produce or create a literary or musical work. To calm oneself down. To arrange the elements of a photograph or other picture.

Example sentence: I'm not going to be rockin' n' rollin' when I'm 50 years old. But you can be in your prime on television, compose songs, or write a Broadway play when you're 50.

Compile

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To put together; to assemble; to make by gathering things from various sources.To use a compiler to process source code and produce executable code.To be successfully processed by a compiler into executable code.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An act of compiling code.

Example sentence: When in my writing lair, I have no access to the Web. Otherwise, I'm like one of those lab rats on too much sugar. To compile my Google searches would be to see my sludgy, allusive brain at work.

We hope you now know whether to use Compose or Compile in your sentence.

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