definition of
compile

[1] #1 compile v. [roll up, collect, accumulate, pile up, amass, hoard] 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". wn

[2] #2 compile v. [compose] put together out of existing material; "compile a list". wn

[3] #3 compile v. use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed. wn