Verb

(compil)

To put together; to assemble; to make by gathering things from various sources.

Samuel Johnson compiled one of the most influential dictionaries of the English language.

(obsolete) To construct, build.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.3:

Before that Merlin dyde, he did intend / A brasen wall in compas to compyle / About Cairmardin [...].

(computing) To use a compiler to process source code and produce executable code.

After I compile this program I'll run it and see if it works.

(computing) To be successfully processed by a compiler into executable code.

There must be an error in my source code because it won't compile .

(obsolete) To contain or comprise.

* Spenser

Which these six books compile .

(obsolete) To write; to compose.

Verb

(en verb)

To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applied especially to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc.; as, to interpret the Hebrew language to an Englishman; to interpret an Indian speech.

* The Holy Bible, (w) i. 23.

Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

* The Holy Bible, (w) xli. 8.

And Pharaoh told them his dreams; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.

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To apprehend and represent by means of art; to show by illustrative representation; as, an actor interprets the character of Hamlet; a musician interprets a sonata; an artist interprets a landscape.

To act as an interpreter.