code
Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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.”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -əʊd
Noun[edit]
code (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.
- Francis Wharton (1820-1899)
- The collection of laws made by the order of Justinian is sometimes called, by way of eminence, "The Code".
- Francis Wharton (1820-1899)
- 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.
- 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.
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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.
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- (cryptography) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
- (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.
- By synecdoche: any piece of a program, of a document or something else written in a computer language.
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Translations[edit]
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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See also[edit]
Verb[edit]
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 categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
- (cryptography) To encode.
- We should code the messages we sent out on Usenet.
- (medicine) Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency such as cardiac arrest.
- (genetics, intransitive) To encode a protein.
Translations[edit]
write software programs
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categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule
cryptography: to encode
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suffer a sudden medical emergency
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encode a protein
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Derived terms[edit]
External links[edit]
- code in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- code in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
Anagrams[edit]
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Pronunciation[edit]
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Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
code c (plural codes, diminutive codetje n)
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
code m (plural codes)
Anagrams[edit]
External links[edit]
- "code" in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Friulian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Vulgar Latin coda, from Latin cauda.
Noun[edit]
code f (plural codis)
Italian[edit]
Noun[edit]
code f
- plural form of coda
Anagrams[edit]
Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
code m (oblique plural codes, nominative singular codes, nominative plural code)
Descendants[edit]
- French: coude
Tarantino[edit]
Noun[edit]
code
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