Read the dictionary definition of compile. All definitions for this word.
1. put together out of existing material
1. compile a list
2. use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed
3. get or gather together
1. I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife
2. She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis
3. She rolled up a small fortune