1. (verb)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. (verb)compose, compile put together out of existing material "compile a list"
3. (verb)compile use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed