code
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kəʊd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /koʊd/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - 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.”). Doublet of codex.
Noun
code (countable and uncountable, plural codes)
- A short textual designation, 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.
- 1872, Francis Wharton, A Treatise on the Conflict of Laws:
- the mild and impartial spirit which pervades the Code compiled under Canute
- 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.
- (medicine) An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.
- (informal) A set of unwritten rules that bind a social group.
- girl code
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- autocode
- barcode
- BBCode
- biocode
- BioCode
- bro code
- bytecode
- codeathon
- codebase
- code black
- code blue
- codebook
- codebreaker
- codebreaking
- code brown
- code coverage
- code duello
- codefest
- code grey
- codegroup
- codehead
- codelength
- codeless
- codelike
- codeline
- codelist
- codemaker
- codemaking
- codename
- code of honor
- code orange
- codepage
- code page
- code pink
- codepoint
- code position
- coder
- code red
- coderoom
- codeset
- codeshare
- codesheet
- codesign
- code silver
- code smell
- codesmith
- codespace
- codestream
- code style
- codetalker
- codetext
- code wheel
- code white
- codewise
- codeword
- codework
- code yellow
- codist
- codon
- conduct code
- countercode
- downcode
- fluorocode
- geocode
- glottocode
- glycocode
- headcode
- hexacode
- hydrocode
- kangaroo code
- keycode
- lawcode
- lexicode
- low-code
- malcode
- microcode
- ministerial code
- miscode
- multicode
- nanocode
- netcode
- no-code
- non-code
- opcode
- outcode
- overcode
- passcode
- PhyloCode
- postcode
- pre-Code
- scancode
- shellcode
- shortcode
- sizecode
- softcode
- subcode
- supercode
- telecode
- ten-code
- timecode
- topcode
- tripcode
- undercode
- Unicode
- upcode
- wikicode
- absolute code
- access code
- account code
- area code
- bar code
- Baudot code
- Beckett-Gray code
- bio-code
- blue code
- blue code of silence
- building code
- byte code
- chain code
- Chapman code
- Chappe code
- cheat code
- code base
- code-behind
- code block
- code cave
- code completion
- code enforcement
- code face
- code folding
- code golf
- code grabber
- code-mix
- code mix
- code mixing
- code-mixing
- code monkey
- code morphing
- code name
- code of conduct
- code of ethics
- code of honour
- code of practice
- code of silence
- code review
- code signing
- code-switch
- code switch
- code-switcher
- code switching
- code-switching
- code talker
- code up
- code vector
- code word
- color code
- computer code
- control code
- country code
- coupon code
- criminal code
- currency code
- design code
- dialling code
- dirty code
- dress-code
- dress code
- dressing code
- Edelcrantz code
- erasure code
- executable code
- exit code
- fire code
- flight code
- fountain code
- function code
- geek code
- genetic code
- Gillham code
- glue code
- go code
- guy code
- Hamming code
- hand-code
- handkerchief code
- hanky code
- hard code
- hard-code
- hash code
- health code
- Hollerith code
- IC code
- Konami code
- language code
- lasagna code
- legacy code
- legal code
- line code
- moral code
- Murray code
- native code
- nuclear code
- object code
- Parsons code
- p-code
- penal code
- postage code
- postal code
- prefix code
- production code
- promo-code
- pseudo-city code
- Q code
- Q-code
- QR code
- ravioli code
- region code
- RST code
- scan code
- short code
- slave code
- spaghetti code
- substitution code
- telegraph code
- ternary code
- time code
- universal product code
- unmanaged code
- UPC code
- Wabun code
- Wolfram code
- ZIP code
- Zip code
- zip code
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Descendants
Translations
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See also
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.
- (transitive) To add codes to (a data set).
- 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
Derived terms
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References
Code (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
code on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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)
Translations
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.
Anagrams
Aromanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin coda, from Latin cauda. Compare Daco-Romanian coadă.
Noun
code f (plural codz, definite articulation coda)
Derived terms
Chinese
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: kuk1
- Yale: kūk
- Cantonese Pinyin: kuk7
- Guangdong Romanization: kug1
- Sinological IPA (key): /kʰʊk̚⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Noun
code
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) code (symbol)
- (Hong Kong Cantonese, computing) code
See also
- (symbol): barcode
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)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- → Indonesian: kode
French
Pronunciation
Noun
code m (plural codes)
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Afrikaans: kode
- → Albanian: kod
- → Basque: kode
- → Bulgarian: код (kod)
- → Catalan: codi
- → Czech: kód
- → Danish: kode
- → Dutch: code
- → English: code
- → Esperanto: kodo
- → Estonian: kood
- → Finnish: koodi
- → Georgian: კოდი (ḳodi)
- → German: Kode
- → Hebrew: קוד
- → Hungarian: kód
- → Ido: kodo
- → Lithuanian: kodas
- → Norwegian: kode
- → Occitan: còdi
- → Polish: kod
- → Romanian: cod
- → Russian: код (kod)
- → Serbo-Croatian: код
- → Slovak: kód
- → Swedish: kod
- → Turkish: kod
- → Ukrainian: код (kod)
Further reading
- “code”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Friulian
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin cōda, variant of Latin cauda.
Pronunciation
Noun
code f (plural codis)
Italian
Noun
code f
Anagrams
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English cudu, cwidu, cweodu, from Proto-West Germanic *kwidu.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
code (uncountable)
- Any kind of plant gum; a gummy or resinous substance.
- Cud; regurgitated food chewed upon by 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 lump; 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.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
code (rare)
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
Tarantino
Noun
code
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