code

noun

/kəʊd/UK/koʊd/US

Etymology

From Middle English code (“system of law”), from Old French code (“system of law”), from Latin cōdex, later form of caudex (“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.”). Doublet of codex. Verb etymology 1, verb sense 7 is an ellipsis of code blue (“medical emergency”).

derived from cōdex
derived from code
inherited from code — “system of law”

Definitions

1
A short textual designation, often with little relation to the item it represents.
- This flavour of soup has been assigned the code WRT-9.
2
A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically…
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.
- the mild and impartial spirit which pervades the Code compiled under Canute
3
Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.
- 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.
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1. A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
2. 5
  A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
  - [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.
3. A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
4. 7
  Instructions for a computer, written in a programming language
  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.
  - 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.
5. A program.
6. A particular lect or language variety.
7. An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.
8. 11
  A set of unwritten rules that bind a social group.
  - girl code
9. 12
  To write software programs.
  - I learned to code on an early home computer in the 1980s.
10. 13
  To add codes to (a data set).
  - The resulting citation collection was databased and coded for meaning, etymon, and date range (earliest and latest occurrence found).
11. To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for…
  To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
12. 15
  To encode.
  - We should code the messages we send out on Usenet.
13. To encode a protein.
14. 17
  To call a hospital emergency code.
  - coding in the CT scanner
15. Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest.
16. Alternative form of cod.
17. A surname.

The neighborhood

neighborcodex
neighborcodification
neighborcodifier
neighborcodify
neighborAztec code
neighborbarcode
neighborbinary code
neighborblock code
neighborboilerplate code
neighborbrevity code
neighborbytecode
neighborcivil code

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at code. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at code. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at code

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA

Etymology

Definitions

The neighborhood

Derived

Vish — recursive loop