1. The act of compiling (as into a single book, file or list)
   "the job of compiling the inventory took several hours";
   - compilation

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

Type of: aggregation, assembling, collecting, collection, hive away, lay in, make, put in, salt away, stack away, stash away, store

Encyclopedia: Compiling