'Compiling' definitions:
Definition of 'compiling'
(from WordNet)
noun
The act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list); "the job of compiling the inventory took several hours" [syn: compilation, compiling]
Definition of 'Compiling'
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]