compile: Meaning and Definition of

com•pile

1. to put together (documents, selections, or other materials) in one book or work.
2. to make (a book, writing, or the like) of materials from various sources: to compile an anthology of plays; to compile a graph showing changes in profit.
3. to gather together: to compile data.
4. to translate (a computer program) from a high-level language into another language, usually machine language, using a compiler.