compile > define

verb

• Get or gather together.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: roll up, collect, accumulate, pile up, amass, hoard
• Put together out of existing material.
  • usage: "compile a list"
  • synonyms: compose
• Use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed. .

• (v.t.) To put together in a new form out of materials already existing; especially, to put together or compose out of materials from other books or documents.
• (v.t.) To put together; to construct; to build.
• (v.t.) To contain or comprise.
• (v.t.) To write; to compose.