Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A system of signals used to represent letters or numbers in transmitting messages.
- noun A system of symbols, letters, or words given certain arbitrary meanings, used for transmitting messages requiring secrecy or brevity.
- noun An access code.
- noun A special command, such as a sequence of keystrokes, that allows a user to activate a hidden or accidental feature in a computer program or video game.
- noun A system of symbols and rules used to represent instructions to a computer; a computer program.
- noun Genetics The genetic code.
- noun A systematically arranged and comprehensive collection of laws.
- noun A systematic collection of regulations or rules of procedure or conduct.
- noun Medicine Code blue.
- noun Slang A patient whose heart has stopped beating, as in cardiac arrest.
- intransitive verb To convert (a message, for example) into code.
- intransitive verb To systematize and arrange (laws and regulations) into a code.
- intransitive verb To assign a code to (something) for identification or classification.
- intransitive verb To express or convey (words) in a manner that implies a different meaning.
- intransitive verb To specify the genetic code for an amino acid or a polypeptide.
- intransitive verb To specify the genetic code for a trait or characteristic.
- intransitive verb Computers To write or revise a computer program.
- intransitive verb Slang To go into cardiac arrest.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To prepare (a message or despatch) for transmission by translating it into the cipher or arbitrarily chosen words of the code previously agreed upon.
- noun In Roman law, one of several systematic or classified collections of the statutory part of that law, made by various later emperors, as the Codex Hermogenianus, Codex Theodosianus, etc.; especially, a classified collection made by Justinian (see below).
- noun In modern jurisprudence: A systematic and complete body of statute law intended to supersede all other law within its scope.
- noun A body of law which is intended to be merely a restatement of the principles of the existing law in a systematic form.
- noun Hence A digest or compendium; an orderly arrangement or system; a body of rules or facts for the regulation or explication of any subject: as, the military code; the code of honor (see below).
- noun Specifically A system of signals with the rules which govern their use.
- noun See
code noir , below.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
- noun Any system of rules or regulations relating to one subject.
- noun a code enacted in France in 1803 and 1804, embodying the law of rights of persons and of property generally.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.
- noun 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.
- noun Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject; as, the medical code, a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians; the naval code, a system of rules for making communications at sea means of signals.
- noun A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
- noun cryptography A cryptographic system using a
codebook that convertswords orphrases intocodewords . - noun programming, uncountable A
programming language (or othercomputer language), aprogram , aroutine written in it, or, more generally, theinput of atranslator , aninterpretator or abrowser , namely:source code ,machine code ,bytecode . - noun uncountable A computer
program , or more generally, any defined computing process. - verb computing To write software programs.
- verb To
categorise by assigning identifiers from aschedule , for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes. - verb cryptography To
encode . - verb medicine Of a
patient , to suffer a suddenmedical emergency such ascardiac arrest . - verb genetics, intransitive To encode a protein.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a coding system used for transmitting messages requiring brevity or secrecy
- noun a set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones)
- verb attach a code to
- noun (computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions
- verb convert ordinary language into code
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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You could certainly imagine an extractive contributor who implements some big new feature and then dumps it on the project with a request to merge (these are often called “code bombs”).
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vanishedone commented on the word code
Also a form of encryption, not to be confused with a cipher.
November 29, 2007
adoarns commented on the word code
Short for code blue, a medical emergency that usually means someone's heart, breathing, or both, have stopped. In most hospitals a designated cohort of professionals will respond when code blues are called.
Used also as an intransitive verb: "Mr Sullivan was doing okay this morning, but coded overnight."
January 26, 2008
zachhale commented on the word code
This word has too many meanings. The meaning I'm in love with is coding as a method of classification. Mmm, such a cool word.
July 18, 2008