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Code (disambiguation)

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Code

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EtymologyEdit

From 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.”).

PronunciationEdit

• Rhymes: -əʊd

NounEdit

code (plural codes)

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1. A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.

   This flavour of soup has been assigned the code WRT-9.

2. 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

3. 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.
4. A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
   1. By synecdoche: a code word, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity.

      The ASCII code of "A" is 65.

5. (cryptography) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
6. (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.

   1. By synecdoche: any piece of a program, of a document or something else written in a computer language.

      This HTML code may be placed on your web page.

Derived termsEdit

Related termsEdit

• codex
• codifier
• codify
• codification

TranslationsEdit

See alsoEdit

• cipher

VerbEdit

code (third-person singular simple present codes, present participle coding, simple past and past participle coded)

1. (computing) To write software programs.
2. To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
3. (cryptography) To encode.

   We should code the messages we sent out on usenet.

4. (medicine) Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency such as cardiac arrest.
5. (genetics, intransitive) To encode a protein.

TranslationsEdit

Derived termsEdit

• coder
• cSNP
• decode
• encode
• hard-coded

External linksEdit

• code in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• code in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

AnagramsEdit

• coed, co-ed
• OECD

PronunciationEdit

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NounEdit

code c (plural codes, diminutive codetje n)

1. code

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /kɔd/

NounEdit

code m (plural codes)

1. code

AnagramsEdit

• déco

NounEdit

code f

1. plural form of coda

AnagramsEdit

• cedo

EtymologyEdit

Latin cubitus

NounEdit

code m (oblique plural codes, nominative singular codes, nominative plural code)

1. elbow

DescendantsEdit

• French: coude

NounEdit

code

1. tail