code

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English

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishcode(“system of law”),fromOld Frenchcode(“system of law”),fromLatincōdex,later form ofcaudex(“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.”).Doubletofcodex.

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code(countableanduncountable,pluralcodes)

  1. A short textual designation, often with little relation to the item it represents.
    This flavour of soup has been assigned thecodeWRT-9.
  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.
    • 1872,Francis Wharton,A Treatise on the Conflict of Laws:
      the mild and impartial spirit which pervades theCodecompiled under Canute
  3. Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.
    The medicalcodeis a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians.
    The navalcodeis a system of rules for making communications at sea by means of signals.
  4. A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
    1. Bysynecdoche:acodeword,code point,an encoded representation of acharacter,symbol,or other entity.
      TheASCIIcodeof "A" is 65.
  5. A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
    • 2014June 21, “Magician’s brain”,inThe Economist,volume411,number8892:
      [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 numerologicalcodes.
  6. (cryptography)A cryptographic system using acodebookthat convertswordsorphrasesintocodewords.
  8. (programming,uncountable)Instructions for acomputer,written in aprogramming language;theinputof atranslator,aninterpreteror abrowser,namely:source code,machine code,bytecode.
    Object-oriented C++codeis easier to understand for a human than Ccode.
    I wrote somecodeto reformat text documents.
    ThisHTMLcodemay be placed on yourweb page.
  9. (scientific programming)Aprogram.
  10. (linguistics)A particularlectorlanguagevariety.
  11. (medicine)An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.
  12. (informal)A set ofunwritten rulesthatbindasocial group.
    girlcode
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Descendants
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  • →Hindi:कूट(kūṭ)
    • →Sanskrit:कूट(kūṭa)
  • →Japanese:コード(kōdo)
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body of law
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code(third-person singular simple presentcodes,present participlecoding,simple past and past participlecoded)

  1. (computing)To write software programs.
    I learned tocodeon an early home computer in the 1980s.
  2. (transitive)To add codes to (adata set).
    • 2018,James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, inEnglish World-Wide‎[1],page 5:
      The resulting citation collection was databased andcodedfor meaning, etymon, and date range (earliest and latest occurrence found).
  3. Tocategoriseby assigning identifiers from aschedule,for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
  4. (cryptography)Toencode.
    We shouldcodethe messages we send out on Usenet.
  5. (genetics,intransitive)To encode a protein.
  6. (medicine)Tocallahospitalemergencycode.
    codingin the CT scanner
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Etymology 2

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Fromcode blue,a medical emergency.

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code(third-person singular simple presentcodes,present participlecoding,simple past and past participlecoded)

  1. (medicine)Of apatient,to suffer a suddenmedicalemergency(acode blue)such ascardiac arrest.
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Aromanian

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FromVulgar Latincoda,fromLatincauda.Compare Daco-Romaniancoadă.

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codef(pluralcodz,definite articulationcoda)

  1. tail

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Chinese

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FromEnglishcode.

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code

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese)code(symbol)
  2. (Hong Kong Cantonese,computing)code
    揼code[Cantonese]―dap6kuk1[Jyutping]― to write (computer) code

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowing fromFrenchcode,in the senses relating to laws and rules. Senses related to cryptography and coding have been borrowed fromEnglishcode.Both derive fromOld Frenchcode,fromLatincōdex.

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

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codem(pluralcodes,diminutivecodetjen)

  1. bookorbodyoflaws,code of laws,lawbook
    Synonym:wetboek
  2. system ofrulesandprinciples,e.g. of conduct
  3. code(set of symbols)
  4. code(text written in a programming language)

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French

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codem(pluralcodes)

  1. code

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Friulian

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Etymology

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FromVulgar Latincōda,variant ofLatincauda.

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codef(pluralcodis)

  1. tail
  2. queue,line

Italian

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codef

  1. pluralofcoda

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Middle English

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FWOTD – 19 January 2021

Etymology 1

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FromOld Englishcudu,cwidu,cweodu,fromProto-West Germanic*kwidu.

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

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code(uncountable)

  2. Any kind ofplantgum;agummyorresinoussubstance.
  3. Cud;regurgitatedfoodchewedupon bylivestock.
    • a.1382,John Wycliffe, “Osee 7:14”,inWycliffe's Bible:
      And thei crieden not to me in her herte, but ȝelliden in her beddis. Thei chewidencodeon wheete, and wyn, and thei ȝeden awei fro me.
      And they didn't cry to me from their hearts; instead they whined in their beds. They chewed wheat and wine likecud,then they ran away from me.
  4. (rare)Amassorlump;a large pile ofsomething.
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Etymology 2

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FromOld Frenchcode,fromLatincōdex,caudex.

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code(rare)

  2. Acoherentandunifiedbodyoflaws.
  3. Thecoreof someone'slasttestament.
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Etymology 3

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FromOld EnglishcoddandOld Norsekoddi.

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code

  1. Alternative form ofcodde(“seedpod”)

Old French

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codeoblique singular,m(oblique pluralcodes,nominative singularcodes,nominative pluralcode)

  1. Alternative form ofcoute

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code

  1. tail
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