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code
/kəʊd/
/koʊd/
noun
A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.
Example:"This flavour of soup has been assigned the code WRT-9."
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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.
Example:""
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Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.
Example:"The medical code is a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians."
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A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
Example:""
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A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
Example:""
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A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
Example:""
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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.
Example:"I wrote some code to reformat text documents."
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(scientific programming) A program.
Example:""
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A particular lect or language variety.
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An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.
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verb
To write software programs.
Example:"I learned to code on an early home computer in the 1980s."
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To add codes to a dataset.
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To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
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To encode.
Example:"We should code the messages we send out on Usenet."