Overview of noun compiling

The noun compiling has 1 sense

• compilation, compiling -- (the act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list); "the job of compiling the inventory took several hours")

Overview of verb compile

The verb compile has 3 senses

• roll up, collect, accumulate, pile up, amass, compile, hoard -- (get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune")


• compose, compile -- (put together out of existing material; "compile a list")


• compile -- (use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed)