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compiler

noun as in collector

noun as in lexicographer

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With the arrival in the early 1950s of program compilers—a technology and term invented by a woman—the workers became “coders,” a word reflecting a persistent misunderstanding of programming as something mechanistic, practically stenographic.

For what it’s worth, the compiler of this post disagrees with Neil and thinks the game will go over the total.

Today, Cunard is best known as the compiler and publisher of Negro: An Anthology (1934).

Jacobus, né Jacopo, was a 13th-century Genoan archbishop and compiler of what we might call Lies of the Saints.

The obsessive compiler would then devote nearly three decades to his monumental American dictionary.

The compiler remarks that "this trait does great honor to Theodoric's manner of thinking with respect to religion."

He was probably the author or compiler of the sacred books; and is said to have been the first who taught disciples.

The compiler of this work has rendered good service to all possessed of Christian sympathies.

The Mr. Hackluyt here mentioned is the industrious compiler of the well-known collection of early voyages.

Yet the alleged late compiler of the Odyssey, in the seventh century, never wanders thus from the Homeric standard in taste.

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On this page you'll find 18 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to compiler, such as: connoisseur, hobbyist, accumulator, antiquarian, antiquary, and authority.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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