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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Compile \Com*pile"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Compiled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Compiling}.] [F. compiler, fr.L. compilare to plunder, pillage; com- + pilare to plunder. See {Pill}, v. t., Pillage.]
1. To put together; to construct; to build. [Obs.]
Before that Merlin died, he did intend A brazen wall in compass to compile. --Spenser.
2. To contain or comprise. [Obs.]
Which these six books compile. --Spenser.
3. To put together in a new form out of materials already existing; esp., to put together or compose out of materials from other books or documents.
He [Goldsmith] compiled for the use of schools a History of Rome. --Macaulay.
4. To write; to compose. [Obs.] --Sir W. Temple.
5. (Computers) to process (computer program source code) with a compiler[2] to produce an assembly-language program or an executable program in machine language. [PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
compiling
noun: the act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list); "the job of compiling the inventory took several hours" [syn: {compilation}]
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