code — Dicionário de inglês

Substantivo

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

   Uso

   • contável
   • incontável

   Exemplos

   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

   • contável
   • incontável

   Exemplos

   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

   • contável
   • incontável

   Exemplos

   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

   • contável
   • incontável

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

   • contável
   • synecdoche
   • incontável

   Exemplos

   The ASCII code of "A" is 65.

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

   Uso

   • contável
   • incontável

   Exemplos

   Mais exemplos (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

   • contável
   • incontável

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

   • incontável

   Exemplos

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

   I wrote some code to reformat text documents.

   Mais exemplos (1)

   This HTML code may be placed on your web page.

9. A program.

   Uso

   • contável
   • incontável

10. A particular lect or language variety.

    Uso

    • contável
    • incontável

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

    Uso

    • contável
    • incontável

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

    Uso

    • contável
    • informal
    • incontável

    Exemplos

    girl code

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

    Uso

    • Australia
    • contável
    • metonymically
    • incontável

Verbo

1. To write software programs.

   Exemplos

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

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

   Uso

   • transitivo

   Exemplos

   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.

   Exemplos

   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

   • informal

   Exemplos

   coding in the CT scanner

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

   Uso

   • informal

Substantivo

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

   Sinônimos

   codification

   Termos mais gerais

   written communicationwritten languageblack and white

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

   Termos mais gerais

   coding system

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

   Sinônimos

   computer code

   Termos mais gerais

   coding system

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

   Termos mais gerais

   markermarkingmark

Verbo

1. attach a code to

   Termos mais gerais

   taglabelmark

   Exemplos

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

2. convert ordinary language into code

   Sinônimos

   encipherciphercypherencryptinscribewrite in code

   Termos mais gerais

   encode

   Exemplos

   We should encode the message for security reasons