code — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

1. A short textual designation, often with little relation to the item it represents.

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   This flavour of soup has been assigned the code WRT-9.

2. 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.

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   the mild and impartial spirit which pervades the Code compiled under Canute

3. Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.

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   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.

4. A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.

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5. A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation. A codeword, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity.

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   The ASCII code of "A" is 65.

6. A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.

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   [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.

7. A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.

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8. 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.

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   Object-oriented C++ code is easier to understand for a human than C code.

   I wrote some code to reformat text documents.

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   This HTML code may be placed on your web page.

9. A program.

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10. A particular lect or language variety.

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11. An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.

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12. A set of unwritten rules that bind a social group.

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    girl code

13. A sport or league of a specific type of football, such as rugby league or the NRL

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Verb

1. To write software programs.

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   I learned to code on an early home computer in the 1980s.

2. To add codes to (a data set).

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   The resulting citation collection was databased and coded for meaning, etymon, and date range (earliest and latest occurrence found).

3. To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.

4. To encode.

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   We should code the messages we send out on Usenet.

5. To encode a protein.

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6. To call a hospital emergency code.

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   coding in the CT scanner

7. Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest.

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Substantiv

1. a set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones)

   Synonyme

   codification

   Oberbegriffe

   written communicationwritten languageblack and white

2. a coding system used for transmitting messages requiring brevity or secrecy

   Oberbegriffe

   coding system

3. (computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions

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   computer code

   Oberbegriffe

   coding system

4. a series of letters, numbers or symbols assigned to something for the purpose of classification or identification

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   markermarkingmark

Verb

1. attach a code to

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   taglabelmark

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   Code the pieces with numbers so that you can identify them later

2. convert ordinary language into code

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   encipherciphercypherencryptinscribewrite in code

   Oberbegriffe

   encode

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   We should encode the message for security reasons