code
Meanings
noun
- A short textual designation, often with little relation to the item it represents.
- 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.
- Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.
- 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.
- A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
- A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
- 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.
- A program.
- A particular lect or language variety.
- An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.
- A set of unwritten rules that bind a social group.
verb
- To write software programs.
- To add codes to (a data set).
- To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
- To encode.
- To encode a protein.
- To call a hospital emergency code.
- Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest.
noun
- Alternative form of cod.
name
- A surname.
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Etymology
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.”). Doublet of codex. Verb etymology 1, verb sense 7 is an ellipsis of code blue (“medical emergency”).
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