What is the meaning of compiling?

noun

• The act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list. )
  • usage: "the job of compiling the inventory took several hours"
  • synonyms: compilation

verb

• 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, compile, hoard
• Put together out of existing material.
  • usage: "compile a list"
  • synonyms: compose, compile
• Use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed.
  • synonyms: compile