code

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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.”).

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code (plural codes)

  1. 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!
  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.
  5. (cryptography) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
  6. (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.
      This HTML code may be placed on your web page.
  7. (uncountable) A computer program, or more generally, any defined computing process.

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very short abbreviation
body of law
system of principles, rules or regulations
set of rules for converting information
cryptographic system
source code — see source code
machine code — see machine code
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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.

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write software programs
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  • Dutch: programmeren (nl)
categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule
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cryptography: to encode
suffer a sudden medical emergency
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encode a protein
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code c. (plural codes, diminutive codetje)

  1. code

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code m. (plural codes)

  1. code

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code f.

  1. Plural form of coda.

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Latin cubitus

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

  1. elbow

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code

  1. tail
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