collect vs compile

collect

verb
  • To gather together; amass. 

  • To get; particularly, get from someone. 

  • To infer; to conclude. 

  • To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation. 

  • To come together in a group or mass. 

  • To collect payments. 

  • To collide with or crash into (another vehicle or obstacle). 

adj
  • To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment. 

noun
  • The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer. 

adv
  • With payment due from the recipient. 

compile

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

  • To be successfully processed by a compiler into executable code. 

  • To achieve (a break) by making a sequence of shots. 

  • To use a compiler to process source code and produce executable code. 

noun
  • An act of compiling code. 

How often have the words collect and compile occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )