code

1. A systematically arranged and comprehensive collection of laws.
2. A systematic collection of regulations and rules of procedure or conduct: a traffic code.
3. 1. A system of signals used to represent letters or numbers in transmitting messages.
   2. A system of symbols, letters, or words given certain arbitrary meanings, used for transmitting messages requiring secrecy or brevity.
4. A system of symbols and rules used to represent instructions to a computer; a computer program.
5. Genetics. The genetic code.
6. Slang. A patient whose heart has stopped beating, as in cardiac arrest.

1. To systematize and arrange (laws and regulations) into a code.
2. To convert (a message, for example) into code.

1. Genetics. To specify the genetic code for an amino acid or a polypeptide.
2. Computer Science. To write or revise a computer program.
3. Slang. To go into cardiac arrest.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin cōdex, book. See codex.]

A series of instructions designed to be fed into a computer. A short code is called a program.

Symbolic representation of a piece of information, such as a social security number that represents a U.S. Citizen in, various file systems. Used for many purposes, codes store information efficiently in computer files and help to organize output from those files in a meaningful way. Codes assigned to various types of promotions such as direct-mail packages, cents-off coupons, space ads, and catalog order forms are used as the basis for organizing the results of those promotions in response analysis reports. See also alphanumeric; key code; matchcode.

1. The Internal Revenue Code. The latest version, the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (IRC), comprises the collective statutes governing the federal taxation of income, estates, gifts, employment, and excise transactions.

2. The instructions within a computer program, known as source code.

3. Compilation of laws, such as the Motor Vehicle Code.

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1. A legal instrument adopted within a political jurisdiction (such as a town, county, state, province, parish, etc.) that prescribes the minimum acceptable levels of the design, construction, installation, and performance of materials, components, devices, items of equipment, appliances used in a building, or building systems and/or subsystems.
2. A published body of rules and regulations for building practices, materials, and installations, designed to protect the health, welfare, and safety of the public, such as a building code, health code, etc. Codes established by municipal, state, or federal authorities usually have the power of law.

A systematic and comprehensive compilation of laws, rules, or regulations that are consolidated and classified according to subject matter.

Many states have published official codes of all laws in force, including the common law and statutes as judicially interpreted, that have been compiled by code commissions and enacted by legislatures. The U.S. Code (U.S.C.) is the compilation of federal laws.

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(DOD) 1. Any system of communication in which arbitrary groups of symbols represent units of plain text of varying length. Codes may be used for brevity or for security. 2. A cryptosystem in which the cryptographic equivalents (usually called "code groups"), typically consisting of letters or digits (or both) in otherwise meaningless combinations, are substituted for plain text elements which are primarily words, phrases, or sentences. See also cryptosystem.

Tutor's tip: A "coda" is a summarizing part that is somehow separate from the whole, a "code" is a set of symbols, while a "coed" is either a female student or a term that indicates a school has both make and female students.

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Coding may refer to:

• Coding theory
• Computer programming
• The process of Statistical classification of information
• coding (social sciences)
• legal coding
• A coding strand of DNA is translated into a protein product
• Present progressive tense for Code Blue, which is a patient in Cardiac Arrest or Respiratory Arrest

See also

• Channel coding
• Code
• Encoding
• Entropy encoding
• Source coding
• Medical coding

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - kode, kodet tekst, kodeks, moral
v. tr. - omsætte til kode
v. intr. - specificere den genetiske kode for en aminosyre, få hjertestop

idioms:

• code name    kodenavn
• code of conduct    uskrevne love
• code of practice    normalkodeks
• code word    kodeord

Nederlands (Dutch)
code, wetboek, (gedrags)voor- schriften, telefonisch kengetal, geldende normen, coderen

Français (French)
n. - code, règlements, code civil, code de conduite, code (message), (Fin) code (de succursale), (Télécom) indicatif, (Comput) code
v. tr. - (gén, Comput) coder
v. intr. - (Gén) déterminer le code de, faire un arrêt cardiaque

idioms:

• code name    nom de code
• code of conduct    code de conduite
• code of practice    code déontologique, conditions générales (banque), code de bonne conduite (publicité)
• code word    mot de passe

Deutsch (German)
v. - kodieren, chiffrieren, verschlüsseln
n. - Kodex, Gesetzbuch, Vorwahl, Kode, Geheimschrift

idioms:

• code name    Deckname
• code of conduct    Verhaltenskodex
• code of practice    Berufsrichtlinien
• code word    Kennwort

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - κωδικοποιώ, κωδικογραφώ
n. - κώδικας

idioms:

• code name    κωδικός, συνθηματική λέξη μυστικής επιχείρησης
• code of conduct    κώδικας συμπεριφοράς
• code of practice    κώδικας δεοντολογίας
• code word    κωδική λέξη, σύνθημα

Italiano (Italian)
codificare, cifrare, codice, prefisso

idioms:

• code name    parola d'ordine, codice
• code of conduct    norme sociali
• code of practice    codice professionale
• code word    parola chiave
• Morse code    alfabeto Morse
• zip code    codice di avviamento postale

Português (Portuguese)
v. - codificar, cifrar, traduzir em código
n. - código (m), cifra (f), coleção (f) de leis

idioms:

• bar code    código (m) de barras
• code name    nome (m) em código
• code of conduct    código (m) de conduta
• code of practice    código (m) de prática
• code word    cifra (f)
• dialling code    código (m) de discagem
• Morse code    código (m) Morse
• zip code    código (m) de endereçamento postal

Русский (Russian)
кодировать, кодекс, нормативное положение, код, поведение по данным традициям

idioms:

• bar code    штриховой код, компьютерное наименование
• code name    кодовое имя, наименование
• code of conduct    кодекс поведения
• code of practice    кодекс поведения/обращения с публикой
• code word    эвфемизм, условленное слово для дешифровки сообщения
• dialling code    телефонный код
• Morse code    азбука Морзе
• zip code    почтовый индекс

Español (Spanish)
n. - código, código civil, prefijo, cifra, clave
v. tr. - cifrar, codificar
v. intr. - poner en clave, poner en código

idioms:

• code name    nombre en clave
• code of conduct    código de comportamiento
• code of practice    código de conducta, código deontológico
• code word    palabra en clave

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - koda, kodifiera
n. - lagsamling, kod

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
编码, 电码, 法典, 把...编码, 制成法典, 指定遗传密码

idioms:

• code name    代号, 编号
• code of conduct    礼貌规范
• code of practice    工作准则
• code word    约定言辞, 暗语

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 編碼, 電碼, 法典
v. tr. - 把...編碼, 製成法典
v. intr. - 指定遺傳密碼

idioms:

• code name    代號, 編號
• code of conduct    禮貌規範
• code of practice    工作準則
• code word    約定言辭, 暗語

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 법전, 규약, 암호, 부호
v. tr. - 법전으로 작성하다, 암호로 하다, ~을 코드화하다
v. intr. - 유전암호를 지정하다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 符号, 暗号, 規則, 法典
v. - 暗号にする, 符号化する

idioms:

• code name    コード名
• code of conduct    電動記号, 掟
• code of practice    作業標準
• code word    コード名, 婉曲語句
• dialling code    加入番号

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) شفر, حول رساله الى رموز (الاسم) قانون, شريعه, نظام, شفرة, رموز‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮צופן, קוד, עקרונות, כללים, קובץ חוקים, טקסט של תוכנת מחשב, המוסר השולט בחברה מסוימת, מוסר התנהגות אישי‬
v. tr. - ‮רשם בכתב-סתרים, קודד, הצפין, ציפן‬
v. intr. - ‮היה הצופן הגנטי ל-‬

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