code

Meaning

Noun

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

Verb

1. To write software programs.
2. 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. 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

code number

codify

statute

sign

𐐿𐐬𐐼

regulations

inscribe

codex

standard

act

canon

codification

computer code

constitution

convention

criminal law

cryptogram

cryptograph

mark

norm

procedure

protocol

rules

coded character set

one-level storage

custom

collection

digest

digit

draft

enactment

code name

clause

civil law

facility

fashion

habit

hack

index

index number

cipher code

jurisprudence

key

🔑

keyword

chord

lawbook

laws

laws and regulations

legal code

legal system

manage

manner

No. of grade

method

Miller

mode

mortgage

secref code

one-level

charter

pawn

plan

practice

pressmark

principle

principles

cryp-tograph

process

characteristic

programme

call number

provision

put on

reference number

regulation

cd

💿

routine

canonical

pressmark

sanction

schedule

scramble

secret

㊙️

section

sequence

show

call number

software

specification

specs

stage

bill

style

summit

article

theorem

usage

way

wont

yard

C

C

ciphere

coded message

marking of goods

secret code

secret writing

area code

coding system

agreement

policy

yard measure

book of laws

Laws

performance specification

coded representation

generation number

one-level code

compact

telegraph code

traditional law

contract

program code

conventions

cord

corpus

covenant

figure number

crown

👑

test key

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kəʊd/

Etymology

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.