compile

Meanings

Verb

• To put together; to assemble; to make by gathering things from various sources.
• To construct, build.
• To use a compiler to process source code and produce executable code.
• To be successfully processed by a compiler into executable code.
• To contain or comprise.
• To write; to compose.

Noun

• An act of compiling code.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• cross-compile
• transcompile

Origin

• From Middle English compilen, from Old French compiler, from Latin compīlō.