code

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Derived terms 1.3.2 Related terms 1.3.3 Translations 1.3.4 See also 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Translations 1.4.2 Derived terms 1.5 External links 1.6 Anagrams 2 Dutch 2.1 Noun 3 French 3.1 Pronunciation 3.2 Noun 3.3 Anagrams 4 Italian 4.1 Noun

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[edit] Etymology

< Old French code (“‘system of law’”) < 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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• Rhymes: -əʊd

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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. (uncountable) Source code.
7. (uncountable) A computer program, or more generally, any defined computing process.

[edit] Derived terms

• binary code
• civil code
• codebook
• codeword
• colour code
• Gray code
• Morse code
• pseudocode
• sort code

[edit] Related terms

• codex
• codifier
• codify
• codification

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• cipher

[edit] Verb

to 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.

[edit] Translations

• Bulgarian: шифровам, кодирам
• Dutch: coderen nl(nl)
• Portuguese: programar pt(pt) (1); codificar pt(pt) (2-3);
• Russian: кодировать (kodírovat') (impf.), закодировать (zakodírovat') (pf.) (3)

[edit] Derived terms

• coder
• decode
• encode

[edit] External links

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

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: cdeo
• coed, co-ed
• OECD

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code

1. code

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[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /kɔd/, SAMPA: /kOd/

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code m. (plural codes)

1. code

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• Alphagram: cdeo
• déco

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code f.

1. Plural form of coda.