Code Definition
code
See also Code, and codé
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English
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Etymology
Old French code (“system of law”), from Latin codex, later form of caudex (“the stock or stem of a tree, a board or tablet of wood smeared over with wax, on which the ancients originally wrote; hence, a book, a writing.”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -əʊd
Noun
code (plural codes)
- A very short abbreviation, often with little correlation to the item it represents
- You assigned the same "unique" code to two intake-categories, causing a database error!
- A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.
- "The collection of laws made by the order of Justinian is sometimes called, by way of eminence, "The Code"." -Wharton
- Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject; as, the medical code, a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians; the naval code, a system of rules for making communications at sea means of signals.
- A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
- By synecdoche: a code word, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity.
- The ASCII code of "A" is 65.
- By synecdoche: a code word, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity.
- (cryptography) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
- (programming, uncountable) A programming language (or other computer language), a program, a routine written in it, or, more generally, the input of a translator, an interpretator or a browser, namely: source code, machine code, bytecode.
- Object-oriented C++ code is easier to understand for a human than C code.
- I wrote some code to reformat text documents.
- By synecdoche: any piece of a program, of a document or something else written in a computer language.
- (uncountable) A computer program, or more generally, any defined computing process.
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Verb
code (third-person singular simple present codes, present participle coding, simple past and past participle coded)
- (computing) To write software programs.
- To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
- (cryptography) To encode.
- We should code the messages we sent out on usenet.
- (medicine) Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency such as cardiac arrest.
- (genetics, intransitive) To encode a protein.
Translations
write software programs
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External links
- code in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- code in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
Anagrams
Dutch
Noun
code c. (plural codes, diminutive codetje)
French
Pronunciation
- IPA: /kɔd/, SAMPA: /kOd/
Noun
code m. (plural codes)
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Italian
Noun
code f.
- Plural form of coda.
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Old French
Etymology
Latin cubitus
Noun
code m. (oblique plural codes, nominative singular codes, nominative plural code)
Descendants
- French: coude
Tarantino
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code
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A code is a rule for converting a piece of information (for example, a letter, word, phrase, or gesture) into another form or representation (one sign into another sign), not necessarily of the same type.
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