code

See also: Code and codé

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəʊd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /koʊd/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -əʊd

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

code (countable and uncountable, plural codes)

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 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 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.

4. A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
   1. By synecdoche: a codeword, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity.

      The ASCII code of "A" is 65.

5. A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
   • 2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:

     [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.

6. (cryptography) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
8. (programming, uncountable) 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.

9. (scientific programming) A program.
10. (linguistics) A particular lect or language variety.
11. (medicine) An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.
12. (informal) A set of unwritten rules that bind a social group.

    girl code

Hyponyms

• barcode
• binary code
• boilerplate code
• brevity code
• bytecode
• civil code
• clean code
• colour code
• dead code
• double code
• error code
• Gray code
• hidden code
• machine code
• managed code
• Morse code
• opcode
• plumbing code
• promo code
• pseudocode
• Sicilian code
• sort code
• source code
• traffic code
• Unicode
• unreachable code

 

Derived terms

Derived terms of code without hyponyms

• autocode
• barcode
• BBCode
• biocode
• BioCode
• bro code
• bytecode
• codeathon
• codebase
• code black
• code blue
• codebook
• codebreaker
• codebreaking
• code brown
• code coverage
• code duello
• codefest
• code grey
• codegroup
• codehead
• codelength
• codeless
• codelike
• codeline
• codelist
• codemaker
• codemaking
• codename
• code of honor
• code orange
• codepage
• code page
• code pink
• codepoint
• code position
• coder
• code red
• coderoom
• codeset
• codeshare
• codesheet
• codesign
• code silver
• code smell
• codesmith
• codespace
• codestream
• code style
• codetalker
• codetext
• code wheel
• code white
• codewise
• codeword
• codework
• code yellow
• codist
• codon
• conduct code
• countercode
• downcode
• fluorocode
• geocode
• glottocode
• glycocode
• headcode
• hexacode
• hydrocode
• kangaroo code
• keycode
• lawcode
• lexicode
• low-code
• malcode
• microcode
• ministerial code
• miscode
• multicode
• nanocode
• netcode
• no-code
• non-code
• opcode
• outcode
• overcode
• passcode
• PhyloCode
• postcode
• pre-Code
• scancode
• shellcode
• shortcode
• sizecode
• softcode
• subcode
• supercode
• telecode
• ten-code
• timecode
• topcode
• tripcode
• undercode
• Unicode
• upcode
• wikicode

 

More derived terms (unsorted, some are hyponyms and some not

• absolute code
• access code
• account code
• area code
• bar code
• Baudot code
• Beckett-Gray code
• bio-code
• blue code
• blue code of silence
• building code
• byte code
• chain code
• Chapman code
• Chappe code
• cheat code
• code base
• code-behind
• code block
• code cave
• code completion
• code enforcement
• code face
• code folding
• code golf
• code grabber
• code-mix
• code mix
• code mixing
• code-mixing
• code monkey
• code morphing
• code name
• code of conduct
• code of ethics
• code of honour
• code of practice
• code of silence
• code review
• code signing
• code-switch
• code switch
• code-switcher
• code switching
• code-switching
• code talker
• code up
• code vector
• code word
• color code
• computer code
• control code
• country code
• coupon code
• criminal code
• currency code
• design code
• dialling code
• dirty code
• dress-code
• dress code
• dressing code
• Edelcrantz code
• erasure code
• executable code
• exit code
• fire code
• flight code
• fountain code
• function code
• geek code
• genetic code
• Gillham code
• glue code
• go code
• guy code
• Hamming code
• hand-code
• handkerchief code
• hanky code
• hard code
• hard-code
• hash code
• health code
• Hollerith code
• IC code
• Konami code
• language code
• lasagna code
• legacy code
• legal code
• line code
• moral code
• Murray code
• native code
• nuclear code
• object code
• Parsons code
• p-code
• penal code
• postage code
• postal code
• prefix code
• production code
• promo-code
• pseudo-city code
• Q code
• Q-code
• QR code
• ravioli code
• region code
• RST code
• scan code
• short code
• slave code
• spaghetti code
• substitution code
• telegraph code
• ternary code
• time code
• universal product code
• unmanaged code
• UPC code
• Wabun code
• Wolfram code
• ZIP code
• Zip code
• zip code

 

Related terms

• codex
• codification
• codifier
• codify

 

Descendants

• → Hindi: कूट (kūṭ)
  • → Sanskrit: कूट (kūṭa)
• → Japanese: コード (kōdo)

Translations

textual designation

Armenian: կոդ (hy) (kod) Belarusian: код m (kod) Bulgarian: код (bg) m (kod) Catalan: codi (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 代碼／代码 (zh) (dàimǎ) Dutch: code (nl) m Esperanto: kodo (eo) Finnish: koodi (fi) Greek: κωδικός (el) m (kodikós) Hungarian: kód (hu) Macedonian: код m (kod) Russian: код (ru) m (kod) Spanish: código (es) m Swedish: kod (sv) c Ukrainian: код (uk) m (kod) Welsh: cod m

body of law

Arabic: دُسْتُور (ar) m (dustūr), دَسْتُور (ar) m (dastūr), قَانُون (ar) m (qānūn), تَشْرِيع (ar) m (tašrīʕ) Armenian: օրենսգիրք (hy) (ōrensgirkʻ) Azerbaijani: məcəllə (az) Belarusian: ко́дэкс m (kódeks) Bulgarian: ко́декс (bg) m (kódeks) Catalan: codi (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 法規／法规 (zh) (fǎguī) Czech: zákoník (cs) m Danish: kodeks c or n, kodex c or n Dutch: wetboek (nl) n Esperanto: kodo (eo) Finnish: laki (fi), säännöskokoelma French: code (fr) m Georgian: კოდექსი m (ḳodeksi) German: Gesetzbuch (de) n Greek: κώδικας (el) (kódikas) Japanese: 規約 (ja) (きやく, kiyaku) Korean: 규약(規約) (ko) (gyuyak) Malay: kanun (ms) Ottoman Turkish: دستور (düstur) Polish: kodeks (pl) m Portuguese: código (pt) m Romanian: cod (ro) n Russian: ко́декс (ru) m (kódɛks), уста́в (ru) m (ustáv) Scottish Gaelic: riaghailt f Spanish: código (es) m Swedish: balk (sv) c Turkish: kural (tr), düstur (tr) Ukrainian: ко́декс (uk) m (kódeks) Vietnamese: luật (vi) Welsh: cod m

system of principles, rules or regulations

Arabic: اِصْطِلَاح (ar) m (iṣṭilāḥ) Belarusian: ко́дэкс m (kódeks) Bulgarian: ко́декс (bg) m (kódeks) Catalan: codi (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 規章／规章 (zh) (guīzhāng), 法典 (zh) (fǎdiǎn), 章程 (zh) (zhāngchéng), 準則／准则 (zh) (zhǔnzé) Czech: kodex m Danish: kodeks c or n, kodex c or n Dutch: code (nl) m Esperanto: kodo (eo) Finnish: säännöt (fi) pl French: code (fr) m German: Kodex (de) m Greek: κώδικας (el) m (kódikas) Hungarian: kódex (hu) Japanese: 法典 (ja) (ほうてん, hōten) Korean: 법전(法典) (ko) (beopjeon) Polish: kodeks (pl) m Portuguese: código (pt) m Romanian: cod (ro) m or n Russian: ко́декс (ru) m (kódɛks) Scottish Gaelic: còd m Spanish: código (es) m Swedish: regel (sv) c, lag (sv) c Ukrainian: ко́декс (uk) m (kódeks) Welsh: cod m

set of rules for converting information

Arabic: رُمُوز m (rumūz) Belarusian: код m (kod) Bulgarian: код (bg) m (kod) Catalan: codi (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 代碼／代码 (zh) (dàimǎ), 編碼／编码 (zh) (biānmǎ) Czech: kód (cs) m Dutch: code (nl) m Esperanto: kodo (eo) Finnish: avain (fi), koodi (fi), koodisto French: code (fr) m German: Code (de) m, Kode (de) m Greek: κώδικας (el) m (kódikas) Italian: codice (it) Japanese: コード (ja) (kōdo), 符号 (ja) (ふごう, fugō) Korean: 코드 (ko) (kodeu), 부호(符號) (ko) (buho) Macedonian: код m (kod) Maori: uhingaro Polish: kod (pl) m Portuguese: código (pt) m Russian: код (ru) m (kod) Scottish Gaelic: còd m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ко̑д m Roman: kȏd (sh) m Slovak: kód m Slovene: kod m Spanish: código (es) m Swedish: kod (sv) c Tagalog: palahudyatan Ukrainian: код (uk) m (kod) Vietnamese: mã (vi) Welsh: cod m

cryptographic system

Arabic: تَرْمِيز m (tarmīz), شِفْرَة f (šifra), رَمْز (ar) m (ramz) Belarusian: код m (kod), шыфр m (šyfr) Bulgarian: код (bg) m (kod), ши́фър (bg) m (šífǎr) Catalan: codi (ca) m, clau (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 代碼／代码 (zh) (dàimǎ), 密碼／密码 (zh) (mìmǎ) Czech: kód (cs) m Dutch: code (nl) m Esperanto: ĉifro, kodo (eo) Finnish: salakirjoitusjärjestelmä Georgian: კოდექსი (ḳodeksi) Greek: κώδικας (el) m (kódikas), κρυπτογράφημα (el) n (kryptográfima) Hebrew: קוֹד (he) m (kod) Hindi: कोड (hi) m (koḍ) Japanese: 暗号 (ja) (あんごう, angō) Korean: 암호(暗號) (ko) (amho) Maori: uhingaro Persian: کد (fa) (kod) Polish: kod (pl) m, szyfr (pl) m Portuguese: código (pt) m Russian: код (ru) m (kod), шифр (ru) m (šifr) Scottish Gaelic: còd m Spanish: código (es) m, clave (es) f Swedish: kod (sv) c Ukrainian: код (uk) m (kod), шифр (uk) m (šyfr) Vietnamese: mật mã (vi) Welsh: cod m

instructions for a computer

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: կոդ (hy) (kod) Azerbaijani: kod Basque: kode Belarusian: код m (kod) Bulgarian: код (bg) m (kod) Chinese: Cantonese: please add this translation if you can Mandarin: 碼／码 (zh) (mǎ), 代碼／代码 (zh) (dàimǎ) Esperanto: kodo (eo) Finnish: koodi (fi) French: code (fr) m German: Code (de) m, Kode (de) m Hebrew: please add this translation if you can Hindi: कोड (hi) m (koḍ) Hungarian: kód (hu) Japanese: コード (ja) (kōdo), 符号 (ja) (ふごう, fugō) Khmer: please add this translation if you can Korean: 코드 (ko) (kodeu), 부호(符號) (ko) (buho) Lao: ໂຄດ (khōt) Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Maori: waehere Polish: kod (pl) m Russian: код (ru) m (kod) Spanish: código (es) Swedish: kod (sv) c Thai: โค้ด (th) (kóot) Turkish: kod (tr) Ukrainian: код (uk) m (kod) Vietnamese: mã hiệu (vi) Welsh: cod m

source code — see source code

machine code — see machine code

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Translations to be checked

German: (please verify) Kode (de) m, (please verify) Code (de) m Italian: (all meanings) (please verify) codice (it) m Swedish: (please verify) kod (sv)

See also

• cipher

Verb

code (third-person singular simple present codes, present participle coding, simple past and past participle coded)

1. (computing) To write software programs.

   I learned to code on an early home computer in the 1980s.

2. (transitive) To add codes to (a data set).
   • 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide‎, page 5:

     The resulting citation collection was databased and coded for meaning, etymon, and date range (earliest and latest occurrence found).

3. To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
4. (cryptography) To encode.

   We should code the messages we send out on Usenet.

5. (genetics, intransitive) To encode a protein.
6. (medicine) To call a hospital emergency code.

   coding in the CT scanner

Derived terms

• BCD
• codability
• codable
• coder
• colour-code, colour code
• cSNP
• decode
• encode
• hard-coded
• outcode
• overcode
• recode
• transcode
• uncode
• undercode
• upcode

 

Translations

write software programs

Chinese: Mandarin: 編程／编程 (zh) (biānchéng) Dutch: programmeren (nl) Esperanto: kodi Finnish: ohjelmoida (fi), koodata (fi) French: programmer (fr) German: programmieren (de), koden (coden (de)) Greek: προγραμματίζω (el) (programmatízo) Italian: programmare (it) Japanese: コーディングする (kōdingu suru) Polish: programować (pl) impf, kodować (pl) impf (informal) Portuguese: programar (pt) Russian: программи́ровать (ru) impf (programmírovatʹ) Spanish: programar (es) Swedish: programmera (sv), koda (sv) (informal) Ukrainian: програмува́ти (prohramuváty), кодува́ти (koduváty) Vietnamese: lập trình (vi), viết chương trình

categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: koodata (fi) German: verschlüsseln (de) Hungarian: kódol (hu), bekódol (hu), besorol (hu)

cryptography: to encode

Bulgarian: кодирам (bg) (kodiram) Chinese: Mandarin: 编码 (zh) (biānmǎ) Dutch: coderen (nl) Esperanto: kodi Finnish: salakirjoittaa German: verschlüsseln (de) Greek: κωδικοποιώ (el) (kodikopoió), κρυπτογραφώ (el) (kryptografó) Hungarian: kódol (hu) Polish: kodować (pl) Portuguese: encriptar (pt), criptografar (pt), codificar (pt) Russian: коди́ровать (ru) impf (kodírovatʹ), закоди́ровать (ru) pf (zakodírovatʹ), шифрова́ть (ru) impf (šifrovátʹ), зашифрова́ть (ru) pf (zašifrovátʹ) Spanish: codificar (es), encriptar, criptografiar Ukrainian: кодува́ти (koduváty), шифрува́ти (šyfruváty)

encode a protein

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Dutch: coderen (nl) Finnish: koodata (fi)

References

• Code (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• code on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From code blue, a medical emergency.

Verb

code (third-person singular simple present codes, present participle coding, simple past and past participle coded)

1. (medicine) Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest.

Translations

suffer a sudden medical emergency

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: saada kohtaus German: crap

Further reading

• “code”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “code”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Deco, coed, deco, COED, OECD, ecod, co-ed

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• coadã

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin coda, from Latin cauda. Compare Daco-Romanian coadă.

Noun

code f (plural codz, definite articulation coda)

1. tail

Derived terms

• cuditse

Chinese

Etymology

From English code.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kuk¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: kuk¹
    • Yale: kūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kuk⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: kug¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰʊk̚⁵/

Noun

code

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) code (symbol)
2. (Hong Kong Cantonese, computing) code

   揼code [Cantonese]  ―  dap⁶ kuk¹ [Jyutping]  ―  to write (computer) code

See also

• (symbol): barcode

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowing from French code, in the senses relating to laws and rules. Senses related to cryptography and coding have been borrowed from English code. Both derive from Old French code, from Latin cōdex.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.də/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: co‧de

Noun

code m (plural codes, diminutive codetje n)

1. book or body of laws, code of laws, lawbook

   Synonym: wetboek

2. system of rules and principles, e.g. of conduct
3. code (set of symbols)
4. code (text written in a programming language)

Derived terms

• code kloppen
• codenaam
• codetaal
• codewoord
• gedragscode
• inlogcode
• pincode
• programmeercode
• streepjescode

 

Related terms

• coderen
• codex

 

Descendants

• → Indonesian: kode

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔd/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

code m (plural codes)

1. code

Derived terms

• alternance de code
• code civil
• code de la route
• code de l’honneur
• code d’accès
• code d’honneur
• code génétique
• code hérité
• code machine
• code pénal
• code postal
• code source
• code vestimentaire
• nom de code

 

Descendants

• → Afrikaans: kode
• → Albanian: kod
• → Basque: kode
• → Bulgarian: код (kod)
• → Catalan: codi
• → Czech: kód
• → Danish: kode
• → Dutch: code
• → English: code
• → Esperanto: kodo
• → Estonian: kood
• → Finnish: koodi
• → Georgian: კოდი (ḳodi)
• → German: Kode
• → Hebrew: קוד
• → Hungarian: kód
• → Ido: kodo
• → Lithuanian: kodas
• → Norwegian: kode
• → Occitan: còdi
• → Persian: کد (kod)
• → Polish: kod
• → Romanian: cod
• → Russian: код (kod)
• → Serbo-Croatian: код
• → Slovak: kód
• → Swedish: kod
• → Turkish: kod
• → Ukrainian: код (kod)

Further reading

• “code”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• déco

Friulian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin cōda, variant of Latin cauda.

Pronunciation

This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

Noun

code f (plural codis)

1. tail
2. queue, line

Italian

Noun

code f

1. plural of coda

Anagrams

• cedo

Middle English

FWOTD – 19 January 2021

Etymology 1

From Old English cudu, cwidu, cweodu, from Proto-West Germanic *kwidu.

Alternative forms

• coode, cood, cude, kude, quede, quide, cuyd, coude, cudde

Pronunciation

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

Noun

code (uncountable)

2. Any kind of plant gum; a gummy or resinous substance.
3. Cud; regurgitated food chewed upon by livestock.
   • a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Osee 7:14”, in Wycliffe's Bible:

     And thei crieden not to me in her herte, but ȝelliden in her beddis. Thei chewiden code on 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 like cud, then they ran away from me.

4. (rare) A mass or lump; a large pile of something.

Descendants

• English: cud, quid
• Scots: cude, cuid

References

• “cud(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-21.

Etymology 2

From Old French code, from Latin cōdex, caudex.

Alternative forms

• coode

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːd(ə)/
• (Northern) IPA^(key): /ˈkøːd(ə)/

Noun

code (rare)

2. A coherent and unified body of laws.
3. The core of someone's last testament.

Descendants

• English: code
• Scots: cude, cuid, cood

References

• “cōde, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-21.

Etymology 3

From Old English codd and Old Norse koddi.

Noun

code

1. Alternative form of codde (“seedpod”)

Old French

Noun

code oblique singular, m (oblique plural codes, nominative singular codes, nominative plural code)

1. Alternative form of coute

Tarantino

Noun

code

1. tail