'Compile' definitions:

Definition of 'compile'

From: WordNet
verb
Get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune" [syn: roll up, collect, accumulate, pile up, amass, compile, hoard]
verb
Put together out of existing material; "compile a list" [syn: compose, compile]
verb
Use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed

Definition of 'Compile'

From: GCIDE
  • Compile \Com*pile"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Compiled; p. pr. & vb. n. Compiling.] [F. compiler, fr.L. compilare to plunder, pillage; com- + pilare to plunder. See Pill, v. t., Pillage.]
  • 1. To put together; to construct; to build. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Before that Merlin died, he did intend A brazen wall in compass to compile. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To contain or comprise. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Which these six books compile. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To put together in a new form out of materials already existing; esp., to put together or compose out of materials from other books or documents. [1913 Webster]
  • He [Goldsmith] compiled for the use of schools a History of Rome. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To write; to compose. [Obs.] --Sir W. Temple. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. (Computers) to process (computer program source code) with a compiler[2] to produce an assembly-language program or an executable program in machine language. [PJC]

Synonyms of 'compile'

From: Moby Thesaurus

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