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English Dictionary: compile	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
compile v 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" Synonym(s): roll up, collect, accumulate, pile up, amass, compile, hoard put together out of existing material; "compile a list" Synonym(s): compose, compile use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.