<p><strong>Verb (used with object):</strong></p><ul><li>to put together (documents, selections, or other materials) in one book or work.</li><li>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.</li><li>to gather together: to compile data.</li><li>Computers: to translate (a computer program) from a high-level language into another language, usually machine language, using a compiler.</li></ul>