Verb

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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

(arrang)

To set up, to organize, especially in a positive manner.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].}}

To put in order, to organize.

To plan; to prepare in advance.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=It had been arranged as part of the day's programme that Mr. Cooke was to drive those who wished to go over the Rise in his new brake.}}

(label) To prepare and adapt an already-written composition for presentation in other than its original form.