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compile in WordNet English dictionary

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"
    roll up  collect  accumulate  pile up  amass  compile  hoard 
  2. put together out of existing material
    "compile a list"
    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
    compile 
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