v. t. | 1. | To put together; to construct; to build. |
2. | To contain or comprise. | |
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. | |
4. | To write; to compose. | |
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. |
Verb | 1. | compile - 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" |
2. | compile - put together out of existing material; "compile a list" Synonyms: compose | |
3. | compile - use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed |