## Meanings
1. To collect information from different places and put it together, for example into a list or report.
2. To turn a program's source code into a form the computer can run.
3. (of source code) To be successfully turned into runnable code.

## Examples
- Samuel Johnson compiled one of the most influential dictionaries of English.
- After I compile this program, I'll run it and see if it works.
- There must be an error in my code because it won't compile.

## Derived Forms
- autocompile
- compilability
- compilable
- compiland
- compilation
- compilator
- compilement
- compiler
- decompile
- miscompile
- noncompiled
- noncompiling

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: compilen
- Root: compiler
- Root: compīlō

## Etymology
From Middle English compilen, from Old French compiler, from Latin compīlō (“to plunder”).

## AI Etymology
compile is a verb. It is from Middle English compilen, from Old French compiler, from Latin compīlō (“to plunder”). Historical forms in the chain include compilen (Middle English), compiler (Old French), and compīlō (Latin). Current senses include to collect information from different places and put it together, for example into a list or report, to turn a program's source code into a form the computer can run, and (of source code) To be successfully turned into runnable code. Derived forms include autocompile, compilability, compilable, compiland, and compilation.

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- Technology & Computing

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