code

IPA: kˈoʊd

A short textual designation, often with little relation to the item it represents.
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.
Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.
A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
By synecdoche: a codeword, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity.
A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
(cryptography) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
(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.
(scientific programming) A program.
(linguistics) A particular lect or language variety.
(medicine) An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.
(informal) A set of unwritten rules that bind a social group.
A surname.

(computing) To write software programs.
(transitive) To add codes to (a data set).
To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
(cryptography) To encode.
(genetics, intransitive) To encode a protein.
(medicine) To call a hospital emergency code.
(intransitive, medicine) To go into a state where a hospital emergency code is required to save one's life.
(medicine) Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest.

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