Compile meaning

What does “compile” mean? Definitions, examples, synonyms and opposites.

“compile” is a verb with 3 meanings. Its most common meaning is: get or gather together.

compile

get or gather together
“I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife”
“She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis”
Synonymsroll up collect accumulate pile up amass hoard
put together out of existing material
“compile a list”
Synonymscompose
use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed

Source: WordNet 3.1, Princeton University