code
noun
- system for encrypting text
- a compilation of laws
- A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents
- computer program instructions (source code)
verb
- make into a code, encrypt
- write software, writing computer programs
- be encoded for a certain function, as with genes
- medical patient being in cardiac arrest
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /kəʊd/ / /koʊd/
name
- A surname.
noun
- Alternative form of cod.
verb
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”).
- To write software programs.
“I learned to code on an early home computer in the 1980s.”
- 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).”
- To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
- To encode.
“We should code the messages we send out on Usenet.”
- To encode a protein.
- To call a hospital emergency code.
“coding in the CT scanner”
- Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest.