code

English Online Dictionary. What means code‎? What does code mean?

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəʊd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /koʊd/
• Rhymes: -əʊd

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

code (countable and uncountable, plural codes)

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

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.

4. A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
   1. By synecdoche: a codeword, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity.

5. A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
6. (cryptography) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
8. (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.

9. (scientific programming) A program.
10. (linguistics) A particular lect or language variety.
11. (medicine) An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.
12. (informal) A set of unwritten rules that bind a social group.

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Translations

See also

• cipher

Verb

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

1. (computing) To write software programs.

2. (transitive) To add codes to (a data set).
3. To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
4. (cryptography) To encode.

5. (genetics, intransitive) To encode a protein.
6. (medicine) To call a hospital emergency code.

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Translations

References

• Code (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• code on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From code blue, a medical emergency.

Verb

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

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

Translations

Further reading

• “code”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “code”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Deco, coed, deco, COED, OECD, ecod, co-ed

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• coadã

Etymology

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

Noun

code f (plural codz, definite articulation coda)

1. tail

Derived terms

• cuditse

Chinese

Etymology

From English code.

Pronunciation

Noun

code

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) code (symbol)
2. (Hong Kong Cantonese, computing) code

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

See also

• (symbol): barcode

Dutch

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.də/
• Hyphenation: co‧de

Noun

code m (plural codes, diminutive codetje n)

1. book or body of laws, code of laws, lawbook

   Synonym: wetboek

2. system of rules and principles, e.g. of conduct
3. code (set of symbols)
4. code (text written in a programming language)

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• → Indonesian: kode

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔd/

Noun

code m (plural codes)

1. code

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

• “code”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• déco

Friulian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin cōda, variant of Latin cauda.

Pronunciation

Noun

code f (plural codis)

1. tail
2. queue, line

Italian

Noun

code f

1. plural of coda

Anagrams

• cedo

Middle English

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• coode, cood, cude, kude, quede, quide, cuyd, coude, cudde

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkud(ə)/, /ˈkoːd(ə)/, /ˈkweːd(ə)/, /ˈkwid(ə)/

Noun

code (uncountable)

2. Any kind of plant gum; a gummy or resinous substance.
3. Cud; regurgitated food chewed upon by livestock.
4. (rare) A mass or lump; a large pile of something.

Descendants

• English: cud, quid
• Scots: cude, cuid

References

• “cud(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-21.

Etymology 2

From Old French code, from Latin cōdex, caudex.

Alternative forms

• coode

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːd(ə)/
• (Northern) IPA^(key): /ˈkøːd(ə)/

Noun

code (rare)

2. A coherent and unified body of laws.
3. The core of someone's last testament.

Descendants

• English: code
• Scots: cude, cuid, cood

References

• “cōde, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-21.

Etymology 3

From Old English codd and Old Norse koddi.

Noun

code

1. Alternative form of codde (“seedpod”)

Old French

Noun

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

1. Alternative form of coute

Tarantino

Noun

code

1. tail

Vietnamese

Etymology

Borrowed from English code.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kot̚˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kok̚˦˧˥]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [kok̚˦˥]
• Phonetic spelling: cốt
• Homophone: cốt

Noun

code

1. (programming) code

   Synonym: mã

Verb

code

1. (computing, programming) to code

See also