code — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

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

   Uso

   • numerabile
   • non numerabile

   Esempi

   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.

   Uso

   • numerabile
   • non numerabile

   Esempi

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

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

   Uso

   • numerabile
   • non numerabile

   Esempi

   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.

   Uso

   • numerabile
   • non numerabile

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.

   Uso

   • numerabile
   • synecdoche
   • non numerabile

   Esempi

   The ASCII code of "A" is 65.

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

   Uso

   • numerabile
   • non numerabile

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (1)

   [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.

   Uso

   • numerabile
   • non numerabile

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.

   Uso

   • non numerabile

   Esempi

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

   I wrote some code to reformat text documents.

   Altri esempi (1)

   This HTML code may be placed on your web page.

9. A program.

   Uso

   • numerabile
   • non numerabile

10. A particular lect or language variety.

    Uso

    • numerabile
    • non numerabile

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

    Uso

    • numerabile
    • non numerabile

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

    Uso

    • numerabile
    • informale
    • non numerabile

    Esempi

    girl code

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

    Uso

    • Australia
    • numerabile
    • metonymically
    • non numerabile

Verbo

1. To write software programs.

   Esempi

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

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

   Uso

   • transitivo

   Esempi

   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.

   Esempi

   We should code the messages we send out on Usenet.

5. To encode a protein.

   Uso

   • intransitivo

6. To call a hospital emergency code.

   Uso

   • informale

   Esempi

   coding in the CT scanner

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

   Uso

   • informale

Sostantivo

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

   Sinonimi

   codification

   Termini più generali

   written communicationwritten languageblack and white

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

   Termini più generali

   coding system

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

   Sinonimi

   computer code

   Termini più generali

   coding system

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

   Termini più generali

   markermarkingmark

Verbo

1. attach a code to

   Termini più generali

   taglabelmark

   Esempi

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

2. convert ordinary language into code

   Sinonimi

   encipherciphercypherencryptinscribewrite in code

   Termini più generali

   encode

   Esempi

   We should encode the message for security reasons