Definition: compile

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

compile
     v 1: get together [syn: collect, accumulate, pile up, amass,
           hoard]
     2: put together out of existing material; "compile a list"
        [syn: 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

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

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.]

            Before that Merlin died, he did intend A brazen wall
            in compass to compile.                --Spenser.

   2. To contain or comprise. [Obs.]

            Which these six books compile.        --Spenser.

   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.

            He [Goldsmith] compiled for the use of schools a
            History of Rome.                      --Macaulay.

   4. To write; to compose. [Obs.] --Sir W. Temple.