| code | |
| 1. n. A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents. | |
| This flavour of soup has been assigned the code WRT-9. | |
| 2. n. 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. n. 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. | |
| The naval code is a system of rules for making communications at sea by means of signals. | |
| 4. n. A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation. | |
| 5. n. By synecdoche: a codeword, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity. | |
| The ASCII code of "A" is 65. | |
| 6. n. A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning. | |
| 7. n. (cryptography) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords. | |
| 8. n. (programming) 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. | |
| Object-oriented C++ code is easier to understand for a human than C code. | |
| I wrote some code to reformat text documents. | |
| This HTML code may be placed on your web page. | |
| 9. n. (scientific programming) A program. | |
| 10. n. (linguistics) A particular lect or language variety. | |
| 11. v. (computing) To write software programs. | |
| I learned to code on an early home computer in the 1980s. | |
| 12. v. To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes. | |
| 13. v. (cryptography) To encode. | |
| We should code the messages we send out on Usenet. | |
| 14. v. (genetics, intransitive) To encode a protein. | |
| 15. v. (medicine) To call a hospital emergency code. | |
| coding in the CT scanner | |
| 16. v. (medicine) Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest. | |
