Meaning of code | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A short textual designation, often with little relation to the item it represents.
   countable, uncountable
2. A surname.
3. a message or writing in code or cipher. Also cryptograph. — cryptogrammic, adj.
   adj
4. cheat sheet
5. 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.
   countable, uncountable
6. to put into (secret, computer etc) code. Have you coded the material for the computer? kodeer يَكْتُبُ بالرُّموز السِّرِّيّه кодирам codificar (za)kódovat verschlüßeln, kodieren kode κωδικοποιώ codificar kodeerima کد گذاری کردن koodata coder לקוֹדֵד šifrirati, kodirati kódol membuat kode kóda, táknsetja; setja í dulmál codificare 記号化する 코드화 하다 (už)koduoti kodēt; šifrēt mengekodkan coderenkode szyfrować, kodować رمز ګزاړیدل codificar a coda, a codifica кодировать kódovať kodirati šifrovati koda...
   etc
7. Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.
   countable, uncountable
8. A system of signals used to represent letters or numbers in transmitting messages.
9. A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
   countable, uncountable
10. The information that constitutes a specific computer program.
11. By synecdoche: a codeword, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity.
    countable, uncountable
12. Genetics The genetic code.
    Genetics
13. A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
    countable, uncountable
14. A systematically arranged and comprehensive collection of laws.
15. A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
    countable, uncountable
16. Medicine Code blue.
    Medicine
17. 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.
    uncountable
18. A program.
    countable, uncountable
19. Slang A patient whose heart has stopped beating, as in cardiac arrest.
    Slang
20. A particular lect or language variety.
    countable, uncountable
21. To convert (a message, for example) into code.
22. An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.
    countable, uncountable
23. To systematize and arrange (laws and regulations) into a code.
24. A set of unwritten rules that bind a social group.
    countable, informal, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

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

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

“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.”

“The ASCII code of "A" is 65.”

“[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.”

“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.”

“girl code”

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