You are welcome to use the word "compile" with a non-standard definition, but its standard definition does not imply either that the output is native code or that optimizations are done. There are numerous well-known compilers whose target language is not native code (the original Cfront, javac, C++ on the CIL, most Pascal compilers from the 01970s, Chicken, GHC's old C backend) and numerous well-known compilers whose output is totally unoptimized (tcc, perl -MO=C, META-II, arguably the original Turbo Pascal). So if you want to understand what other people are saying about "compilers" you should keep in mind that the standard definition includes what you are calling "transpilers".