code

plural codes

1. countableuncountableA short textual designation, often with little relation to the item it represents.

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

2. countableuncountableA 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 mild and impartial spirit which pervades the Code compiled under Canute

   1872, Francis Wharton, A Treatise on the Conflict of Laws

3. countableuncountableAny system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.

   The naval code is a system of rules for making communications at sea by means of signals.

   1 more example

   The medical code is a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians.

4. countableuncountableA set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
   1. countablesynecdocheuncountableA codeword, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity.

      The ASCII code of "A" is 65.

5. countableuncountableA message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.

   [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.

   2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892

6. countableuncountablecomputingA cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
7. uncountablecomputingInstructions for a computer, written in a programming language; the input of a translator, an interpreter or a browser, namely: source code, machine code, bytecode.

   I wrote some code to reformat text documents.

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   Object-oriented C++ code is easier to understand for a human than C code.

   This HTML code may be placed on your web page.

8. countableuncountablecomputingA program.
9. countableuncountablehuman sciencesA particular lect or language variety.
10. countableuncountablemedicineAn emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.
11. countableinformaluncountableA set of unwritten rules that bind a social group.

    girl code

12. AustraliacountablemetonymicallyuncountableA sport or league of a specific type of football, such as rugby league or the NRL

present singular third person codes · participle present coding · participle past coded · past coded

1. computingTo write software programs.

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

2. transitiveTo add codes to (a data set).

   The resulting citation collection was databased and coded for meaning, etymon, and date range (earliest and latest occurrence found).

   2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 5

3. To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
4. computingTo encode.

   We should code the messages we send out on Usenet.

5. intransitivebiologyTo encode a protein.
6. informalgovernmentTo call a hospital emergency code.

   coding in the CT scanner

7. informalgovernmentOf a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest.

plural codes

1. alternativeAlternative form of cod.

1. A surname.