code

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A short textual designation, often with little relation to the item it represents.
2. (countable, uncountable) 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.
3. (countable, uncountable) Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.
4. (countable, uncountable) A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
5. (countable, uncountable) A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
6. (countable, uncountable) A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
7. (countable, uncountable) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
8. (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.
9. (countable, uncountable) A program.
10. (countable, uncountable) A particular lect or language variety.
11. (countable, uncountable) An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.
12. (countable, informal, uncountable) A set of unwritten rules that bind a social group.

Verb

1. To write software programs.
2. (transitive) To add codes to (a data set).
3. To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
4. To encode.
5. (intransitive) To encode a protein.
6. To call a hospital emergency code.

Verb

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

Synonyms

cipher

encode

cypher

law

rule

write in code

program

encipher

symbol

encrypt

password

sign

statute

code number

codify

𐐿𐐬𐐼

codex

regulations

inscribe

convention

constitution

standard

coded character set

codification

rules

procedure

act

cryptograph

mark

criminal law

canon

norm

protocol

cryptogram

computer code

corpus

cord

cipher code

conventions

call number

contract

chord

index

habit

compact

charter

bill

hack

fashion

facility

Translations

code

código

codice

Code

código

codi

Kode

code

κώδικας

Kodex

kodieren

coder

κρυπτογραφώ

κρυπτογράφημα

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kəʊd/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: code

In summary

From Middle English code (“system of law”), from Old French code (“system of law”), from Latin cōdex, later form of caudex (“the stock or stem of a tree, a board or tablet of wood smeared over with wax, on which the ancients originally wrote; hence, a book, a writing.”). Doublet of codex.