code
noun
1. a set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones)
Similar word(s): codification
Definition categories: communication
2. a coding system used for transmitting messages requiring brevity or secrecy
Definition categories: communication
3. (computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions
Definition categories: communication
Sentences with code as a noun:
- This flavour of soup has been assigned the code WRT-9.
- The ASCII code of "A" is 65.
- 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.
verb
1. attach a code to
- Code the pieces with numbers so that you can identify them later
Definition categories: contact, label, mark, tag
2. convert ordinary language into code
- We should encode the message for security reasons
Similar word(s): cipher, cypher, encipher, encrypt, inscribe
Definition categories: communication, encode
Sentences with code as a verb:
- I learned to code on an early home computer in the 1980s.
- We should code the messages we sent out on Usenet.