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code

  [kohd] noun, verb, cod⋅ed, cod⋅ing.
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–noun
1. a system for communication by telegraph, heliograph, etc., in which long and short sounds, light flashes, etc., are used to symbolize the content of a message: Morse code.
2. a system used for brevity or secrecy of communication, in which arbitrarily chosen words, letters, or symbols are assigned definite meanings.
3. any set of standards set forth and enforced by a local government agency for the protection of public safety, health, etc., as in the structural safety of buildings (building code), health requirements for plumbing, ventilation, etc. (sanitary or health code), and the specifications for fire escapes or exits (fire code).
4. a systematically arranged collection or compendium of laws, rules, or regulations.
5. any authoritative, general, systematic, and written statement of the legal rules and principles applicable in a given legal order to one or more broad areas of life.
6. a word, letter, number, or other symbol used in a code system to mark, represent, or identify something: The code on the label shows the date of manufacture.
7. Computers. the symbolic arrangement of statements or instructions in a computer program in which letters, digits, etc. are represented as binary numbers; the set of instructions in such a program: That program took 3000 lines of code. Compare ASCII, object code, source code.
8. any system or collection of rules and regulations: a gentleman's code of behavior.
9. Medicine/Medical. a directive or alert to a hospital team assigned to emergency resuscitation of patients.
10. Genetics. genetic code.
11. Linguistics.
a. the system of rules shared by the participants in an act of communication, making possible the transmission and interpretation of messages.
b. (in sociolinguistic theory) one of two distinct styles of language use that differ in degree of explicitness and are sometimes thought to be correlated with differences in social class. Compare elaborated code, restricted code.
–verb (used with object)
12. to translate (a message) into a code; encode.
13. to arrange or enter (laws or statutes) in a code.
14. Computers. to translate (a program) into language that can be communicated to the computer.
–verb (used without object)
15. Genetics. to specify the amino acid sequence of a protein by the sequence of nucleotides comprising the gene for that protein: a gene that codes for the production of insulin.
Origin:
1275–1325; ME < AF, OF < L cōdex codex

Related forms:
coder, noun
codeless, adjective
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code   (kōd)   
n.  
  1. A systematically arranged and comprehensive collection of laws.
  2. A systematic collection of regulations and rules of procedure or conduct: a traffic code.
    1. A system of signals used to represent letters or numbers in transmitting messages.
    2. A system of symbols, letters, or words given certain arbitrary meanings, used for transmitting messages requiring secrecy or brevity.
  4. A system of symbols and rules used to represent instructions to a computer; a computer program.
  5. Genetics The genetic code.
  6. Slang A patient whose heart has stopped beating, as in cardiac arrest.
v.   cod·ed, cod·ing, codes

v.   tr.
  1. To systematize and arrange (laws and regulations) into a code.
  2. To convert (a message, for example) into code.
v.   intr.
  1. Genetics To specify the genetic code for an amino acid or a polypeptide.
  2. Computer Science To write or revise a computer program.
  3. Slang To go into cardiac arrest.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin cōdex, book; see codex.]
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codes

n. [scientific computing] Programs. This usage is common in people who hack supercomputers and heavy-duty number-crunching, rare to unknown elsewhere (if you say "codes" to hackers outside scientific computing, their first association is likely to be "and cyphers").
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code   (kōd)  Pronunciation Key 
  1. A system of signals used to represent letters or numbers in transmitting messages.
  2. The instructions in a computer program. Instructions written by a programmer in a programming language are often called source code. Instructions that have been converted into machine language that the computer understands are called machine code or executable code. See also programming language.

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codes
1. Programs. This usage is common among scientific computing people who use supercumputers for heavy-duty number crunching.
2. Something to do with cryptography.
[The Jargon File]
(1994-10-28)

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