Thesaurus: compile

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1. v. t. To put together; to construct; to build.
2. v. t. To contain or comprise.
3. v. t. 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.
4. v. t. To write; to compose.
5. v. get or gather together
6. v. put together out of existing material
7. v. use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed
8. 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.
9. v:100 v. use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed