code

(noun, verb)

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.