Definitions for code

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Spelling: [kohd]

IPA: /koʊd/

Code is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in code (cdeo).

Definitions for code

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:
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 code 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:
7. Digital Technology. a set of symbols that can be interpreted by a computer or piece of software: the symbolic arrangement of statements or instructions in a computer program, or the set of instructions in such a program:
8. any system or collection of rules and regulations:
9. Medicine/Medical. a directive or alert to a hospital team assigned to emergency resuscitation of patients.
10. Genetics. genetic code.
11. Linguistics. the system of rules shared by the participants in an act of communication, making possible the transmission and interpretation of messages. (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)

1. to translate (a message) into a code; encode.
2. to categorize or identify by assigning a code to:
3. to arrange or enter (laws or statutes) in a code.
4. Digital Technology. to write code for (a computer program or application) (often followed by up):

verb (used without object)

1. Genetics. to specify the amino acid sequence of a protein by the sequence of nucleotides comprising the gene for that protein:
2. Digital Technology. to write computer code.

Origin of code

1275-1325; Middle English Anglo-French, Old French Latin cōdex codex

Examples for code

Morals stand for a code of observances; righteousness for a direction of the life.

The code he learned was to obey the strong and to oppress the weak.

No wonder somebody using North Korean code staged a raid on Sony Pictures.

The translation agency only advertises for girls with “no complexes”: code for being prepared to bed the client.

He tried to read, and took down the Chateauvillard code of dueling.

Turing conceived and built a computer, the forerunner of all digital computations, that cracked the code.

This is at least better than the code of Hammurabi, which considered the rape victim an adulteress.

Many historians have leveled criticism at the code, arguing that it was too conservative and supportive of the bourgeois.

He tried to read the signals, but they were in code, or in the Mercutian tongue, which was just as bad.

It was part of a code no less binding because it was unwritten.