code
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kəʊd/
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- (General American) IPA(key): /koʊd/
- Rhymes: -əʊd
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English code (“system of law”), from Old French code (“system of law”), from Latin cōdex, 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.”).
NounEdit
code (countable and uncountable, plural codes)
- A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.
- This flavour of soup has been assigned the code WRT-9.
- 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.
- 1872, Francis Wharton, A Treatise on the Conflict of Laws
- the mild and impartial spirit which pervades the Code compiled under Canute
- 1872, Francis Wharton, A Treatise on the Conflict of Laws
- Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.
- The medical code is a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians.
- The naval code is a system of rules for making communications at sea by means of signals.
- A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
- By synecdoche: a codeword, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity.
- The ASCII code of "A" is 65.
- By synecdoche: a codeword, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity.
- A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
- 2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:
- [Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes.
- (cryptography) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
- (programming, uncountable) Instructions for a computer, written in a programming language; the input of a translator, an interpreter 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.
- (scientific programming) A program.
- (linguistics) A particular lect or language variety.
- (medicine) An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.
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- → Japanese: コード (kōdo)
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VerbEdit
code (third-person singular simple present codes, present participle coding, simple past and past participle coded)
- (computing) To write software programs.
- I learned to code on an early home computer in the 1980s.
- To add codes to a dataset.
- 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide[1], page 5:
- The resulting citation collection was databased and coded for meaning, etymon, and date range (earliest and latest occurrence found).
- 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 send out on Usenet.
- (genetics, intransitive) To encode a protein.
- (medicine) To call a hospital emergency code.
- coding in the CT scanner
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ReferencesEdit
- Code (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- code on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2Edit
From code blue, a medical emergency
VerbEdit
code (third-person singular simple present codes, present participle coding, simple past and past participle coded)
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Further readingEdit
- code in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- code in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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EtymologyEdit
Borrowing from French code, in the senses relating to laws and rules. Senses related to cryptography and coding have been borrowed from English code. Both derive from Old French code, from Latin cōdex.
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NounEdit
code m (plural codes, diminutive codetje n)
- book or body of laws, code of laws, lawbook
- Synonym: wetboek
- system of rules and principles, e.g. of conduct
- code (set of symbols)
- code (text written in a programming language)
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DescendantsEdit
- → Indonesian: kode
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
code m (plural codes)
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Further readingEdit
- “code” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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FriulianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Vulgar Latin cōda, variant of Latin cauda.
NounEdit
code f (plural codis)
ItalianEdit
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code f
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Middle EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old English cudu, cwidu, cweodu, from Proto-West Germanic *kwidu.
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code (uncountable)
- Any kind of plant gum; a gummy or resinous substance.
- Cud; regurgitated food chewed upon by livestock.
- a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Osee 7:14”, in Wycliffe's Bible:
- And thei crieden not to me in her herte, but ȝelliden in her beddis. Thei chewiden code on wheete, and wyn, and thei ȝeden awei fro me.
- And they didn't cry to me from their hearts; instead they whined in their beds. They chewed wheat and wine like cud, then they ran away from me.
- (rare) A mass or lump; a large pile of something.
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “cud(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2Edit
From Old French code, from Latin cōdex, caudex.
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code (rare)
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ReferencesEdit
- “cōde, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 3Edit
From Old English codd and Old Norse koddi.
NounEdit
code
- Alternative form of codde (“seedpod”)
Old FrenchEdit
NounEdit
code m (oblique plural codes, nominative singular codes, nominative plural code)
- Alternative form of coute
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code