Meaning & Definition of Compile in English
English⟶
Compile
/kəmpaɪl/
verb
1. 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"
- "She rolled up a small fortune"
synonym:
- roll up,
- collect,
- accumulate,
- pile up,
- amass,
- compile,
- hoard
2. Put together out of existing material
- "Compile a list"
synonym:
- compose,
- compile
3. Use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed
synonym:
- compile