compile

To make by gathering pieces from various sources.

Noun

An act of compiling code.
- […] programming team managers assumed the "improved programs" produced through structured programming would not require as many compiles during development. - 1985, Robert A Stern, An Introduction to Computers and...
- Any file with an error or warning on it will be added to this smart group until the next compile. - 2007, Scott Meyers, Mike Lee, MAC OS X Leopard: Beyond the Manual:

From Middle English compilen, from Old French compiler, from Latin compīlō (“to plunder”).

To make by gathering pieces from various sources.
- Samuel Johnson compiled one of the most influential dictionaries of the English language.
- So what is it that makes SBB (Swiss national railways) tick? In my humble opinion, two things. Firstly, a comprehensive and set-in-stone integrated timetable (incorporating trains, ferries, cable cars and buses,...
To construct; to build.
- Before that Merlin dyde, he did intend / A brasen wall in compas to compyle / About Cairmardin […] - 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William...
To achieve (a break) by making a sequence of shots.
- Steve Davis compiled a 147.
To use a compiler to process source code and produce executable code.
- After I compile this program I’ll run it and see if it works.
To be successfully processed by a compiler into executable code.
- There must be an error in my source code because it won’t compile.
To contain or comprise.
- After ſo long a race as I haue run / Through Faery land, vvhich thoſe ſix books cõpile [compile] / giue leaue to reſt me being halfe fordonne, / and gather to my ſelfe nevv breath avvhile. - 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e.,...
To write; to compose.
- They are at their leisure much given to poetry; in which they compile the praises of virtuous men and actions , satires against vice - 1690, William Temple, Miscellanea. The Second Part. […], London: […] T. M. for...