compile

  1. Verb.  (transitive) To put together; to assemble; to make by gathering things from various sources.
  2. Verb.  (transitive, computing) To use a compiler to process source code and produce executable code.
  3. Verb.  (intransitive, computing) To be successfully processed by a compiler into executable code.
  4. Noun.  (computing) An act of compiling code.

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