What is the meaning of compile?

Get or gather together.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: roll up, collect, accumulate, pile up, amass, hoard
Put together out of existing material.
- usage: "compile a list"
- synonyms: compose
Use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed. .

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