codes

Meaning of codes

noun
  1. A short symbol, 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.
  5. A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
  6. A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
  7. 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.
    I wrote some code to reformat text documents.
  8. (scientific programming) A program.
  9. A particular lect or language variety.
  10. An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.
verb
  1. To write software programs.
    I learned to code on an early home computer in the 1980s.
  2. To add codes to a dataset.
  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.
  5. To encode a protein.
  6. To call a hospital emergency code.
    coding in the CT scanner

verb

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

Information about codes

Hyphenation of codes

codes

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • codes is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Anagrams of codes

coeds, cosed, Decos, decos

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