“Codes” is a form of
code
UK /kəʊd/ · US /koʊd/ noun, verb, proper noun
Forms codes coding coded
- noun A short textual designation, often with little relation to the item it represents. “This flavour of soup has been assigned the code WRT-9.”
- 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. “The medical code is a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians.”
- noun A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
- noun (by synecdoche) A codeword, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity. “The ASCII code of "A" is 65.”
- noun A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
- noun (cryptography) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
- noun (programming, uncountable) 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.”
- verb (computing) To write software programs. “I learned to code on an early home computer in the 1980s.”
- verb (transitive) To add codes to (a data set).
- verb To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
- verb (cryptography) To encode. “We should code the messages we send out on Usenet.”
- verb (genetics, intransitive) To encode a protein.
- verb (informal, healthcare) To call a hospital emergency code. “coding in the CT scanner”
- verb (informal, healthcare) Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest.
- proper noun A surname.
Synonyms
codification computer code encipher cipher cypher encrypt inscribe write in code
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.
Verb etymology 1, verb sense 7 is an ellipsis of code blue (“medical emergency”).
Webster’s 1913
- 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; 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. Code civil or Code Napoleon, a code enacted in France in 1803 and 1804, embodying the law of rights of persons and of property generally. Abbot.
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “code”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details