compile meaning and definition

COMPILE verb

Definition of compile (verb)

1. 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"
   • synonyms: accumulate, amass, collect, hoard, pile up, roll up
2. put together out of existing material
   • "compile a list"
   • synonyms: compose
3. use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed