FromMiddle English code ( “ system of law ” ) , fromOld French code ( “ system of law ” ) , fromLatin cōdex , later form ofcaudex ( “ 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 ofcodex .
code (countable anduncountable ,plural codes )
A short textual designation, often with little relation to the item it represents.This flavour of soup has been assigned thecode 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 theCode compiled under Canute
Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.The medicalcode is a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians.
The navalcode 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.Bysynecdoche : acodeword ,code point , an encoded representation of acharacter ,symbol , or other entity.TheASCII code of "A" is 65. A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain ”, inThe Economist , volume411 , number8892 :[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 numerologicalcodes .
( cryptography ) A cryptographic system using acodebook that convertswords orphrases intocodewords .( programming , uncountable ) Instructions for acomputer , written in aprogramming language ; theinput of atranslator , aninterpreter or abrowser , namely:source code ,machine code ,bytecode .Object-oriented C++code is easier to understand for a human than Ccode .
I wrote somecode to reformat text documents.
( scientific programming ) Aprogram .( linguistics ) A particularlect orlanguage variety.( medicine ) An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.( informal ) A set ofunwritten rules thatbind asocial group .girlcode
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→ Hindi:कूट ( kūṭ ) → Japanese:コード ( kōdo ) → Khmer:កូដ ( kout ) → Korean:코드 ( kodeu ) symbol or short designation
body of law
Arabic:دُسْتُور (ar) m ( dustūr ) ,دَسْتُور (ar) m ( dastūr ) ,قَانُون (ar) m ( qānūn ) ,تَشْرِيع (ar) m ( tašrīʕ ) Aragonese:codigo m Armenian:օրենսգիրք (hy) ( ōrensgirkʻ ) Asturian:códigu m Azerbaijani:məcəllə (az) Basque:kode Belarusian:ко́дэкс m ( kódeks ) Bulgarian:ко́декс (bg) m ( kódeks ) Catalan:codi (ca) m Chinese:Mandarin:法規 / 法规 (zh) ( fǎguī ) Czech:kodex m ,zákoník (cs) m Danish:kodeks c or n ,kodex c or n Dutch:wetboek (nl) n ,code (nl) m Esperanto:kodo (eo) Estonian:kood Finnish:laki (fi) ,säännöskokoelma French:code (fr) m Galician:código (gl) m Georgian:კოდექსი m ( ḳodeksi ) German:Kodex (de) m ,Gesetzbuch (de) n Greek:κώδικας (el) ( kódikas ) Hungarian:kódex (hu) Ido:kodexo (io) Indonesian:kitab undang-undang Italian:codice (it) m Japanese:規約 (ja) ( きやく, kiyaku ) Korean:규약(規約) (ko) ( gyuyak ) Lithuanian:kodeksas Malay:kanun (ms) Occitan:còdi (oc) m Ottoman Turkish:دستور ( düstur ) Polish:kodeks (pl) m Portuguese:código (pt) m Romanian:cod (ro) n Russian:ко́декс (ru) m ( kódɛks ) ,уста́в (ru) m ( ustáv ) Scottish Gaelic:riaghailt f Spanish:código (es) m Swedish:balk (sv) c Turkish:kural (tr) ,düstur (tr) Ukrainian:ко́декс (uk) m ( kódeks ) Venetan:codexe m Vietnamese:luật (vi) Welsh:cod m
system of principles, rules or regulations
set of rules for converting information
cryptographic system
Arabic:تَرْمِيز m ( tarmīz ) ,شِفْرَة f ( šifra ) ,رَمْز (ar) m ( ramz ) Aragonese:codigo m Asturian:códigu m Basque:kode Belarusian:код m ( kod ) ,шыфр m ( šyfr ) Bulgarian:код (bg) m ( kod ) ,ши́фър (bg) m ( šífǎr ) Catalan:codi (ca) m ,clau (ca) f Chinese:Mandarin:代碼 / 代码 (zh) ( dàimǎ ) ,密碼 / 密码 (zh) ( mìmǎ ) Czech:kód (cs) m Dutch:code (nl) m Esperanto:ĉifro ,kodo (eo) Finnish:salakirjoitusjärjestelmä Galician:código (gl) m Georgian:კოდექსი ( ḳodeksi ) Greek:κώδικας (el) m ( kódikas ) ,κρυπτογράφημα (el) n ( kryptográfima ) Hebrew:קוֹד (he) m ( kod ) Hindi:कोड (hi) m ( koḍ ) Hungarian:kód (hu) Ido:kodexo (io) Italian:codice (it) m Japanese:暗号 (ja) ( あんごう, angō ) Korean:암호(暗號) (ko) ( amho ) Maori:uhingaro Occitan:còdi (oc) m Persian:کد (fa) ( kod ) Polish:kod (pl) m ,szyfr (pl) m Portuguese:código (pt) m Romanian:cod (ro) n Russian:код (ru) m ( kod ) ,шифр (ru) m ( šifr ) Scottish Gaelic:còd m Slovak:kód m Spanish:código (es) m ,clave (es) f Swedish:kod (sv) c Turkish:kod (tr) Ukrainian:код (uk) m ( kod ) ,шифр (uk) m ( šyfr ) Vietnamese:mật mã (vi) Welsh:cod m
instructions for a computer
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code (third-person singular simple present codes ,present participle coding ,simple past and past participle coded )
( computing ) To write software programs.I learned tocode on an early home computer in the 1980s.
( transitive ) To add codes to (adata set ).2018 , James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, inEnglish World-Wide [1] , page 5:The resulting citation collection was databased andcoded for meaning, etymon, and date range (earliest and latest occurrence found).
Tocategorise by assigning identifiers from aschedule , for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes. ( cryptography ) Toencode .We shouldcode the messages we send out on Usenet.
( genetics , intransitive ) To encode a protein.( medicine ) Tocall ahospital emergency code .coding in the CT scanner
categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule
cryptography: to encode
Bulgarian:кодирам (bg) ( kodiram ) Chinese:Mandarin:编码 (zh) ( biānmǎ ) Dutch:coderen (nl) Esperanto:kodi Finnish:salakirjoittaa German:verschlüsseln (de) Greek:κωδικοποιώ (el) ( kodikopoió ) ,κρυπτογραφώ (el) ( kryptografó ) Hebrew:קוֹדֵד ( kodéd ) ,הִצְפִּין ( hitzpín ) Hungarian:kódol (hu) Polish:kodować (pl) Portuguese:encriptar (pt) ,criptografar (pt) ,codificar (pt) Russian:коди́ровать (ru) impf ( kodírovatʹ ) ,закоди́ровать (ru) pf ( zakodírovatʹ ) ,шифрова́ть (ru) impf ( šifrovátʹ ) ,зашифрова́ть (ru) pf ( zašifrovátʹ ) Spanish:codificar (es) ,encriptar (es) ,criptografiar Ukrainian:кодува́ти ( koduváty ) ,шифрува́ти ( šyfruváty )
Fromcode blue , a medical emergency.
code (third-person singular simple present codes ,present participle coding ,simple past and past participle coded )
( medicine ) Of apatient , to suffer a suddenmedical emergency ( acode blue ) such ascardiac arrest .suffer a sudden medical emergency
Chinese:Mandarin:please add this translation if you can Finnish:saada kohtaus German:crap
“code ”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary , Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam ,1913 ,→OCLC . William Dwight Whitney ,Benjamin E[li] Smith , editors (1911 ), “code ”, inThe Century Dictionary [ … ] , New York, N.Y.:The Century Co. ,→OCLC .FromVulgar Latin coda , fromLatin cauda . Compare Daco-Romanian coadă .
code f (plural codz ,definite articulation coda )
tail FromEnglish code .
code
( Hong Kong Cantonese ) code ( symbol ) ( Hong Kong Cantonese , computing ) code 揼 code [Cantonese ] ― dap6 kuk1 [Jyutping] ― to write (computer) codeBorrowing fromFrench code , in the senses relating to laws and rules. Senses related to cryptography and coding have been borrowed fromEnglish code . Both derive fromOld French code , fromLatin cōdex .
IPA (key ) : /ˈkoː.də/ Hyphenation:co‧de code m (plural codes ,diminutive codetje n )
book orbody oflaws , code of laws,lawbook Synonym: wetboek system ofrules andprinciples , e.g. of conduct code ( set of symbols ) code( text written in a programming language ) code m (plural codes )
code FromVulgar Latin cōda , variant ofLatin cauda .
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code f (plural codis )
tail queue ,line code f
plural ofcoda FromOld English cudu ,cwidu ,cweodu , fromProto-West Germanic *kwidu .
IPA (key ) : /ˈkud(ə)/ ,/ˈkoːd(ə)/ ,/ˈkweːd(ə)/ ,/ˈkwid(ə)/ code (uncountable )
Any kind ofplant gum ; agummy orresinous substance . Cud ;regurgitated foodchewed upon bylivestock .a. 1382 , John Wycliffe, “Osee 7:14 ”, inWycliffe's Bible :And thei crieden not to me in her herte, but ȝelliden in her beddis. Thei chewidencode 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 likecud , then they ran away from me. ( rare ) Amass orlump ; a large pile ofsomething .FromOld French code , fromLatin cōdex ,caudex .
code ( rare )
Acoherent andunified body oflaws . Thecore of someone'slast testament . FromOld English codd andOld Norse koddi .
code
alternative form ofcodde ( “ seedpod ” ) code oblique singular , m (oblique plural codes ,nominative singular codes ,nominative plural code )
alternative form ofcoute code
tail Borrowed fromEnglish code .
code
( programming ) code Synonym: mã code
( computing , programming ) tocode