code
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -əʊd
Etymology 1
From Middle English code (“system of law”), from Old French code (“system of law”), from Latin cōdex, 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.”).
Noun
code (countable and uncountable, plural codes)
- A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.
- This flavour of soup has been assigned the code WRT-9.
- 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.
- (Can we date this quote by Francis Wharton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- The collection of laws made by the order of Justinian is sometimes called, by way of eminence, "The Code".
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- Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.
- The medical code is a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians.
- The naval code is a system of rules for making communications at sea by means of signals.
- A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
- By synecdoche: a codeword, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity.
- The ASCII code of "A" is 65.
- By synecdoche: a codeword, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity.
- A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
- 2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in 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.
- (cryptography) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
- (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.
- (scientific programming) A program.
- (linguistics) A particular lect or language variety.
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Verb
code (third-person singular simple present codes, present participle coding, simple past and past participle coded)
- (computing) To write software programs.
- I learned to code on an early home computer in the 1980s.
- To add codes to a dataset.
- 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide[1], page 5:
- The resulting citation collection was databased and coded for meaning, etymon, and date range (earliest and latest occurrence found).
- To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
- (cryptography) To encode.
- We should code the messages we send out on Usenet.
- (genetics, intransitive) To encode a protein.
- (medicine) To call a hospital emergency code.
- coding in the CT scanner
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References
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Etymology 2
From code blue, a medical emergency
Verb
code (third-person singular simple present codes, present participle coding, simple past and past participle coded)
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Further reading
- “code”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “code”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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Dutch
Etymology
Borrowing from French code, in the senses relating to laws and rules. Senses related to cryptography and coding have been borrowed from English code. Both derive from Old French code, from Latin cōdex.
Pronunciation
Noun
code m (plural codes, diminutive codetje n)
- book or body of laws, code of laws, lawbook
- Synonym: wetboek
- system of rules and principles, e.g. of conduct
- code (set of symbols)
- code (text written in a programming language)
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French
Pronunciation
Noun
code m (plural codes)
Further reading
- “code”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Friulian
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin cōda, variant of Latin cauda.
Noun
code f (plural codis)
Italian
Noun
code f
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Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English cudu, cwidu, cweodu, from Proto-Germanic *kweduz.
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Noun
code (uncountable)
- Any kind of plant gum; a gummy or resinous substance.
- Cud; regurgitated food chewed upon by certain livestock.
- a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Osee 7:14”, in Wycliffe's Bible:
- And thei crieden not to me in her herte, but ȝelliden in her beddis. Thei chewiden code on wheete, and wyn, and thei ȝeden awei fro me.
- And they didn't cry to me from their hearts; instead they whined in their beds. They chewed wheat and wine like cud, then they ran away from me.
- (rare) A mass or hump; a large pile of something.
Descendants
References
- “cud(e (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-21.
Etymology 2
From Old French code, from Latin cōdex, caudex.
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Noun
code (rare)
- A coherent and unified system or body of laws.
- The core part of someone's last testament.
Descendants
References
- “cōde (n.(1))”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-21.
Etymology 3
From Old English codd and Old Norse koddi.
Noun
code
- Alternative form of codde (“seedpod”)
Old French
Noun
code oblique singular, m (oblique plural codes, nominative singular codes, nominative plural code)
- Alternative form of coute
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