Meaning

A short textual designation, often with little relation to the item it represents..

Definitions by Sense

1. A short textual designation, often with little relation to the item it represents.
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.
3. Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.
4. A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
5. A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
6. (cryptography) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
7. (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.
8. (scientific programming) A program.

Example Sentences

This flavour of soup has been assigned the code WRT-9.

the mild and impartial spirit which pervades the Code compiled under Canute

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.

[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.

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.

Word Forms

• codes
• coding
• coded

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Use code when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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