code
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
computing
cryptography
engineering
genetics
government
healthcare
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
scientific
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: codes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: codes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: coding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: coded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: coded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A short textual designation, often with little relation to the item it represents.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This flavour of soup has been assigned the code WRT-9.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the mild and impartial spirit which pervades the Code compiled under Canute
gloss: Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The ASCII code of "A" is 65.
gloss: A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [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.
gloss: A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Object-oriented C++ code is easier to understand for a human than C code.
I wrote some code to reformat text documents.
This HTML code may be placed on your web page.
gloss: A program.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A particular lect or language variety.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A set of unwritten rules that bind a social group.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: girl code
gloss: To write software programs.
pos: verb
examples: I learned to code on an early home computer in the 1980s.
gloss: To add codes to (a data set).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The resulting citation collection was databased and coded for meaning, etymon, and date range (earliest and latest occurrence found).
gloss: To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
pos: verb
gloss: To encode.
pos: verb
examples: We should code the messages we send out on Usenet.
gloss: To encode a protein.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To call a hospital emergency code.
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: coding in the CT scanner
gloss: Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest.
pos: verb
tags: informal
Related words: codex
codification
codifier
codify
Derived words: absolute code
access code
account code
area code
autocode
Aztec code
barcode
bar code
Baudot code
BBCode
Beckett-Gray code
binary code
biocode
BioCode
bio-code
block code
blue code
blue code of silence
boilerplate code
brevity code
bro code
building code
bytecode
byte code
chain code
Chapman code
Chappe code
cheat code
civil code
clean code
codeathon
code base
codebase
code-behind
code block
code blue
codebook
codebreaker
codebreaking
code brown
code cave
code completion
code coverage
code duello
code enforcement
code face
code fence
codefest
code-first
code folding
code golf
code grabber
codegroup
codehead
codelength
codeless
code-lift
codelike
codeline
codelist
codemaker
codemaking
code-mix
code mix
code-mixing
code mixing
code monkey
code morphing
codename
code name
code of conduct
code of ethics
code of honor
code of honour
code of practice
code of silence
codepage
code page
codepoint
code position
code red
code red drill
code review
coderoom
code rot
codeset
codeshare
codesheet
codesign
code signing
code smell
codesmith
codespace
codestream
code style
code switch
code-switch
code-switcher
code switching
code-switching
codetalker
code talker
codetext
code unit
code up
code wheel
codewise
codeword
code word
codework
code yellow
codist
codon
color code
computer code
conduct code
control code
countercode
country code
coupon code
criminal code
currency code
dead code
design code
dialling code
dirty code
double code
downcode
dress-code
dress code
dressing code
Edelcrantz code
erasure code
error code
executable code
exit code
fire code
flight code
fluorocode
fountain code
function code
geek code
genetic code
geocode
Gillham code
glottocode
glue code
glycocode
go code
Grabovoi code
Gray code
Green Cross Code
guy code
Hamming code
hand-code
handkerchief code
hanky code
hard-code
hard code
hash code
headcode
health code
hexacode
hidden code
Hollerith code
hydrocode
IC code
kangaroo code
keycode
Konami code
language code
lasagna code
lawcode
legacy code
legal code
lexicode
line code
low-code
machine code
mail code
malcode
managed code
microcode
ministerial code
miscode
moral code
Morse code
Morton code
multicode
Murray code
nanocode
native code
netcode
no-code
non-code
nuclear code
object code
opcode
Parsons code
passcode
p-code
penal code
PhyloCode
plumbing code
postage code
postal code
postcode
pre-Code
prefix code
product code
production code
promo-code
promo code
pseudo-city code
pseudocode
Q code
Q-code
QR code
ravioli code
region code
RST code
scan code
scancode
shellcode
short code
shortcode
Sicilian code
sizecode
slave code
softcode
sort code
source code
spaghetti code
subcode
substitution code
supercode
telecode
telegraph code
ten-code
ternary code
time code
timecode
topcode
traffic code
tripcode
Unicode
universal product code
unmanaged code
unreachable code
UPC code
up to code
Wabun code
wikicode
Wolfram code
Zip code
zip code
ZIP code
coder
colour code
outcode
overcode
undercode
upcode
BCD
codability
codable
colour-code
cSNP
decode
encode
hard-coded
recode
transcode
uncode
V-code
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: رُمُوز
roman: rumūz
lang: Aragonese
word: codigo
lang: Asturian
word: códigu
lang: Basque
word: kode
lang: Belarusian
word: код
roman: kod
lang: Bulgarian
word: код
roman: kod
lang: Catalan
word: codi
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 代碼 /代码
roman: dàimǎ
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 編碼 /编码
roman: biānmǎ
lang: Czech
word: kód
lang: Dutch
word: code
lang: Esperanto
word: kodo
lang: Finnish
word: avain
lang: Finnish
word: koodi
lang: Finnish
word: koodisto
lang: French
word: code
lang: Galician
word: código
lang: German
word: Code
lang: German
word: Kode
lang: Greek
word: κώδικας
roman: kódikas
lang: Hebrew
word: קוֹד
roman: kod
lang: Hungarian
word: kód
lang: Ido
word: kodexo
lang: Italian
word: codice
lang: Japanese
word: コード
roman: kōdo
lang: Japanese
word: 符号
roman: fugō
lang: Korean
word: 코드
roman: kodeu
lang: Korean
word: 부호
roman: buho
lang: Macedonian
word: код
roman: kod
lang: Māori
word: uhingaro
lang: Occitan
word: còdi
lang: Polish
word: kod
lang: Portuguese
word: código
lang: Romanian
word: cod
lang: Russian
word: код
roman: kod
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: còd
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ко̑д
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: kȏd
lang: Slovak
word: kód
lang: Slovene
word: kod
lang: Spanish
word: código
lang: Swedish
word: kod
lang: Tagalog
word: palahudyatan
lang: Turkish
word: kod
lang: Ukrainian
word: код
roman: kod
lang: Vietnamese
word: mã
lang: Welsh
word: cod