code

Meanings

Noun

• A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.
• 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.
• Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.
• A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
• A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
• A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
• 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.
• A program.
• A particular lect or language variety.
• An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.
• A set of unwritten rules that bind a social group.

Verb

• To write software programs.
• To add codes to a dataset.
• To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
• To encode.
• To encode a protein.
• To call a hospital emergency code.
• To go into a state where a hospital emergency code is required to save one's life.
• Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency such as cardiac arrest.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• barcode
• binary code
• boilerplate code
• bytecode
• civil code
• clean code
• colour code
• dead code
• double code
• Gray code
• hidden code
• machine code
• managed code
• Morse code
• opcode
• promo code
• pseudocode
• sort code
• source code
• Unicode
• unreachable code

Origin

• From Middle English code, from Old French code ("system of law"), from Latin cōdex, later form of caudex. codex
• From code blue, a medical emergency