code
Forms
- Plural
- codes
- present (v1)
- code
- past (v2)
- coded
- past participle (v3)
- coded
- present participle
- coding
- 3rd person singular
- codes
Definitions
1.A short textual designation, often with little relation to the item it represents.
- 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.
3.Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.
- The naval code is a system of rules for making communications at sea by means of signals.
- The medical code is a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians.
4.A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
- The ASCII code of "A" is 65.
1.To write software programs.
- I learned to code on an early home computer in the 1980s.
2.To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
3.To encode.
- We should code the messages we send out on Usenet.
4.To add codes to (a data set).
- The resulting citation collection was databased and coded for meaning, etymon, and date range (earliest and latest occurrence found).
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1336
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
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.