/keuhm puyl"/ , v.t., compiled, compiling .
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.
[ 1275-1325; ME compilare to rob, pillage, steal from another writer, equiv. to com- COM- + -pilare, perh. akin to pila column, pier, PILE 1 , pilare to fix firmly, plant (hence, pile up, accumulate) ]