Compile Definition

kəm-pīl

compiled, compiles, compiling

verb

compiled, compiles, compiling

To gather and put together (statistics, facts, etc.) in an orderly form.

Webster's New World

To gather into a single book.

American Heritage

To compose (a book, etc.) of materials gathered from various sources.

Webster's New World

To translate (a computer program, instruction, etc. in a high-level language) into machine language.

Webster's New World

The definition of compile means to gather a number of things together into one.

Collecting photos for a photo album is an example of to compile.

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(computing) An act of compiling code.

Wiktionary

Origin of Compile

Middle English compilen from Old French compiler probably from Latin compīlāre to plunder com- com- pīla heap (of stones), pillar

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
from Old French compiler (early 14c.), from Latin compilo (“heap, plunder”)

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