Pronunciations (2)
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/kəʊd/
Pronunciation notes
- Received-Pronunciation
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/koʊd/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
Noun
A short textual designation, often with little relation to the item it represents.
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- Uncountable
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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.
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- Uncountable
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the mild and impartial spirit which pervades the Code compiled under Canute
Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.
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- Uncountable
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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.
A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
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- Uncountable
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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- synecdoche
- Uncountable
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The ASCII code of "A" is 65.
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.
A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
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- 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.
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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.
A program.
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- Uncountable
A particular lect or language variety.
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An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.
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A set of unwritten rules that bind a social group.
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- Informal
- Uncountable
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girl code
A sport or league of a specific type of football, such as rugby league or the NRL
Usage- Australia
- Countable
- metonymically
- Uncountable
Verb
To write software programs.
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I learned to code on an early home computer in the 1980s.
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).
To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
To encode.
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We should code the messages we send out on Usenet.
To encode a protein.
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To call a hospital emergency code.
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coding in the CT scanner
Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest.
Usage- Informal
Noun
a set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones)
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a coding system used for transmitting messages requiring brevity or secrecy
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(computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions
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a series of letters, numbers or symbols assigned to something for the purpose of classification or identification
Verb
attach a code to
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Code the pieces with numbers so that you can identify them later
convert ordinary language into code
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We should encode the message for security reasons