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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)

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.
   • Francis Wharton (1820-1899)

     The collection of laws made by the order of Justinian is sometimes called, by way of eminence, "The Code".

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 codeword, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity.

      The ASCII code of "A" is 65.

5. A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
   • 2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, 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.

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

   I learned to code on an early home computer in the 1980s.

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

• Audio

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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

§External linksEdit

• “code” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

§EtymologyEdit

From Vulgar Latin coda, from Latin cauda.

§NounEdit

code f (plural codis)

1. tail
2. queue, line

§NounEdit

code f

1. plural form of coda

§AnagramsEdit

• cedo

§EtymologyEdit

From Latin cubitus

§NounEdit

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

1. elbow

§DescendantsEdit

• French: coude

§NounEdit

code

1. tail