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Compiling

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com⋅pile

  [kuhm-pahyl]
Use Compiling in a Sentence
–verb (used with object), -piled, -pil⋅ing.
1. to put together (documents, selections, or other materials) in one book or work.
2. to make (a book, writing, or the like) of materials from various sources: to compile an anthology of plays; to compile a graph showing changes in profit.
3. to gather together: to compile data.
4. Computers. to translate (a computer program) from a high-level language into another language, usually machine language, using a compiler.
Origin:
1275–1325; ME < L compīlāre to rob, pillage, steal from another writer, equiv. to com- com- + -pīlāre, perh. akin to pīla column, pier, pile 1 , pīlāre to fix firmly, plant (hence, pile up, accumulate)
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com·pile   (kəm-pīl')   
tr.v.   com·piled, com·pil·ing, com·piles

  1. To gather into a single book.

  2. To put together or compose from materials gathered from several sources: compile an encyclopedia.

  3. Computer Science To translate (a program) into machine language.


[Middle English compilen, from Old French compiler, probably from Latin compīlāre, to plunder : com-, com- + pīla, heap (of stones), pillar.]
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Word Origin & History

compile 
early 14c., from O.Fr. compiler, from L. compilare "to snatch together, plunder, heap," from com- "together" + pilare "to compress, ram down."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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