Compile
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To put together; to assemble; to make by gathering things from various sources. To use a compiler to process source code and produce executable code. To be successfully processed by a compiler into executable code.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An act of compiling code.
Example sentence: When in my writing lair, I have no access to the Web. Otherwise, I'm like one of those lab rats on too much sugar. To compile my Google searches would be to see my sludgy, allusive brain at work.
Compose
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To make something by merging parts.To make up the whole; to constitute.To comprise.To construct by mental labor; to think up; particularly, to produce or create a literary or musical work.To calm oneself down.To arrange the elements of a photograph or other picture.
Example sentence: The code of life is like a Beethoven symphony. We have not yet learned how to write music like that. But evolution does it very well. I am learning how to use evolution to compose new music.