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/koʊd/
nounverb

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

NWL Collins ENABLE

Noun 4 meanings

  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.

  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.”

  4. A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.

Verb 4 meanings

  1. To write software programs.

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

  2. To add codes to (a data set).

  3. To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.

  4. To encode.

    “We should code the messages we send out on Usenet.”

Definitions: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA) via Kaikki/Wiktextract

Where it comes from

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.

CODE at a glance

CODE has 4 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (C 3 + O 1 + D 2 + E 1) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #826 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.

Rhymes with code

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  • EPISODE10
  • MODE7
  • RODE5
  • NODE5
  • EXPLODE17
  • ELECTRODE12
  • ABODE8
  • DIODE7
  • BODE7
  • CATHODE13
  • ERODE6
  • DECODE10

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