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| 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. |