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code f (plural codz, definite articulation coda)

From Vulgar Latin coda, from Latin cauda. Compare Daco-Romanian coadă.


code

揼code [Cantonese] ― dap⁶ kuk¹ [Jyutping] ― to write (computer) code


code

book or body of laws, code of laws, lawbook

system of rules and principles, e.g. of conduct

code (text written in a programming language)

nl-noun

code m (plural codes, diminutive codetje n)

codes (plural)
codetje (diminutive neuter)

→ Indonesian: kode

Borrowing from French code, in the senses relating to laws and rules. Senses related to cryptography and coding have been borrowed from English code. Both derive from Old French code, from Latin cōdex.


code

This flavour of soup has been assigned the code WRT-9.

A short textual designation, often with little relation to the item it represents.

the mild and impartial spirit which pervades the Code compiled under Canute

1872, Francis Wharton, A Treatise on the Conflict of Laws:

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.

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.

Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.

A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.

The ASCII code of "A" is 65.

By synecdoche: a codeword, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity.

[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes.

2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:

A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.

(cryptography) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.

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.

programming language
programming language

(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.

(linguistics) A particular lect or language variety.

(medicine) An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.

girl code

(informal) A set of unwritten rules that bind a social group.

en-noun

code (countable and uncountable, plural codes)

desctree

→ Hindi: कूट (kūṭ)
→ Sanskrit: कूट (kūṭa)

→ Japanese: コード (kōdo)

اِصْطِلَاح

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.


code

I learned to code on an early home computer in the 1980s.

The resulting citation collection was databased and coded for meaning, etymon, and date range (earliest and latest occurrence found).

2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 5:

(transitive) To add codes to (a data set).

To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.

We should code the messages we send out on Usenet.

(genetics, intransitive) To encode a protein.

coding in the CT scanner

(medicine) To call a hospital emergency code.

en-verb

code (third-person singular simple present codes, present participle coding, simple past and past participle coded)

codes (present singular third-person)
coding (participle present)
coded (participle past)
coded (past)


code

(medicine) Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest.


code

→ Afrikaans: kode

→ Albanian: kod

→ Basque: kode

→ Bulgarian: код (kod)

→ Catalan: codi

→ Czech: kód

→ Danish: kode

→ Dutch: code

→ English: code

→ Esperanto: kodo

→ Estonian: kood

→ Finnish: koodi

→ Georgian: კოდი (ḳodi)

→ German: Kode

→ Hebrew: קוד

→ Hungarian: kód

→ Ido: kodo

→ Lithuanian: kodas

→ Norwegian: kode

→ Occitan: còdi

→ Persian: کد (kod)

→ Polish: kod

→ Romanian: cod

→ Russian: код (kod)

→ Serbo-Croatian: код

→ Slovak: kód

→ Swedish: kod

→ Turkish: kod

→ Ukrainian: код (kod)


code

From Vulgar Latin cōda, variant of Latin cauda.


code

Any kind of plant gum; a gummy or resinous substance.

And thei crieden not to me in her herte, but ȝelliden in her beddis. Thei chewiden code on wheete, and wyn, and thei ȝeden awei fro me.

a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Osee 7:14”, in Wycliffe's Bible:

And they didn't cry to me from their hearts; instead they whined in their beds. They chewed wheat and wine like cud, then they ran away from me.

Cud; regurgitated food chewed upon by livestock.

(rare) A mass or lump; a large pile of something.

English: cud, quid

Scots: cude, cuid

From Old English cudu, cwidu, cweodu, from Proto-West Germanic *kwidu.


code

English: code

Scots: cude, cuid, cood

From Old French code, from Latin cōdex, caudex.


code

From Old English codd and Old Norse koddi.


code

fro-noun

code oblique singular, m (oblique plural codes, nominative singular codes, nominative plural code)

code oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
codes (oblique plural)
codes (nominative singular)
code (nominative plural)