"compiling" in the noun sense
1. compilation, compiling
the act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list
"the job of compiling the inventory took several hours"
"compiling" in the verb sense
1. 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"
2. compose, compile
put together out of existing material
"compile a list"
3. compile
use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed
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