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code

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noun

A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.

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.


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

      The medical code is a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians.

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


          A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.


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


              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.

              I wrote some code to reformat text documents.

                (scientific programming) A program.


                  A particular lect or language variety.


                    An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.


                      verb

                      To write software programs.

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

                        To add codes to a dataset.


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


                            To encode.

                            We should code the messages we send out on Usenet.

                              To encode a protein.


                                To call a hospital emergency code.

                                coding in the CT scanner