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Verb: compile  kum'pI(-u)l
  1. Get or gather together (a large number of something)
    "She compiled a small fortune";
    - roll up, collect, accumulate, pile up, amass, hoard
     
  2. Put together out of existing material
    "compile a list";
    - compose
     
  3. Use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed

Derived forms: compiling, compiles, compiled

Type of: hive away, lay in, make, put in, salt away, stack away, stash away, store

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