compile

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To collect information from different places and put it together, for example into a list or report.

   Samuel Johnson compiled one of the most influential dictionaries of English.

2. 2
   verb

   To turn a program's source code into a form the computer can run.

   After I compile this program, I'll run it and see if it works.

3. 3
   verb

   (of source code) To be successfully turned into runnable code.

   There must be an error in my code because it won't compile.

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

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