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English
Etymology 1
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.
Verb verb sense 7 is an ellipsis of code blue (“medical emergency”).
Pronunciation
Noun
code (countable and uncountable, plural codes)
- A short textual designation, often with little relation to the item it represents.
This flavour of soup has been assigned the code WRT-9.
- 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.
1872, Francis Wharton, A Treatise on the Conflict of Laws:the mild and impartial spirit which pervades the Code compiled under Canute
- 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. The naval code is a system of rules for making communications at sea by means of signals.
- 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.
The ASCII code of "A" is 65.
- A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC:[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes.
- (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.
Object-oriented C++ code is easier to understand for a human than C code. I wrote some code to reformat text documents.
- (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.
girl code
- (metonymic, Australia) A sport or league of a specific type of football, such as rugby league or the NRL
Hyponyms
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Descendants
- → Hindi: कूट (kūṭ)
- → Japanese: コード (kōdo)
- → Khmer: កូដ (kout)
- → Korean: 코드 (kodeu)
Translations
symbol or short designation body of law
- Arabic: دُسْتُور (ar) m (dustūr), دَسْتُور (ar) m (dastūr), قَانُون (ar) m (qānūn), تَشْرِيع (ar) m (tašrīʕ)
- Aragonese: codigo m
- Armenian: օրենսգիրք (hy) (ōrensgirkʻ)
- Asturian: códigu m
- Azerbaijani: məcəllə (az)
- Basque: kode
- Belarusian: ко́дэкс m (kódeks)
- Bulgarian: ко́декс (bg) m (kódeks)
- Catalan: codi (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 法規 / 法规 (zh) (fǎguī)
- Czech: kodex m, zákoník (cs) m
- Danish: kodeks c or n, kodex c or n
- Dutch: wetboek (nl) n, code (nl) m
- Esperanto: kodo (eo)
- Estonian: kood
- Finnish: laki (fi), säännöskokoelma
- French: code (fr) m
- Galician: código (gl) m
- Georgian: კოდექსი m (ḳodeksi)
- German: Kodex (de) m, Gesetzbuch (de) n
- Greek: κώδικας (el) (kódikas)
- Hungarian: kódex (hu)
- Ido: kodexo (io)
- Indonesian: kitab undang-undang
- Italian: codice (it) m
- Japanese: 規約 (ja) (きやく, kiyaku)
- Korean: 규약(規約) (ko) (gyuyak)
- Lithuanian: kodeksas
- Malay: kanun (ms)
- Occitan: còdi (oc) m
- Polish: kodeks (pl) m
- Portuguese: código (pt) m
- Romanian: cod (ro) n
- Russian: ко́декс (ru) m (kódɛks), уста́в (ru) m (ustáv)
- Scottish Gaelic: riaghailt f
- Spanish: código (es) m
- Swedish: balk (sv) c
- Turkish: kural (tr), düstur (tr)
- Ottoman Turkish: دستور (düstur)
- Ukrainian: ко́декс (uk) m (kódeks)
- Venetan: codexe m
- Vietnamese: luật (vi)
- Welsh: cod m
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system of principles, rules or regulations
- Arabic: اِصْطِلَاح (ar) m (iṣṭilāḥ)
- Aragonese: codigo m
- Asturian: códigu m
- Basque: kode
- Belarusian: ко́дэкс m (kódeks)
- Bulgarian: ко́декс (bg) m (kódeks)
- Catalan: codi (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 規章 / 规章 (zh) (guīzhāng), 法典 (zh) (fǎdiǎn), 章程 (zh) (zhāngchéng), 準則 / 准则 (zh) (zhǔnzé)
- Czech: kodex m
- Danish: kodeks c or n, kodex c or n
- Dutch: code (nl) m
- Esperanto: kodo (eo)
- Estonian: kood
- Finnish: säännöt (fi) pl
- French: code (fr) m
- Galician: código (gl) m
- German: Kodex (de) m
- Greek: κώδικας (el) m (kódikas)
- Hindi: संहिता (hi) f (sãhitā)
- Hungarian: kódex (hu)
- Ido: kodexo (io)
- Italian: codice (it) m, norma (it) f
- Japanese: 掟 (ja) (おきて, okite), 法典 (ja) (ほうてん, hōten), コード (ja) (kōdo)
- Korean: 법전(法典) (ko) (beopjeon), 코드 (ko) (kodeu)
- Lithuanian: kodeksas
- Occitan: còdi (oc) m
- Polish: kodeks (pl) m
- Portuguese: código (pt) m
- Romanian: cod (ro) m or n
- Russian: ко́декс (ru) m (kódɛks)
- Scottish Gaelic: còd m
- Spanish: código (es) m
- Swedish: regel (sv) c, lag (sv) c
- Ukrainian: ко́декс (uk) m (kódeks)
- Venetan: codexe
- Welsh: cod m
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set of rules for converting information cryptographic system
- Arabic: تَرْمِيز m (tarmīz), شِفْرَة f (šifra), رَمْز (ar) m (ramz)
- Aragonese: codigo m
- Asturian: códigu m
- Basque: kode
- Belarusian: код m (kod), шыфр m (šyfr)
- Bulgarian: код (bg) m (kod), ши́фър (bg) m (šífăr)
- Catalan: codi (ca) m, clau (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 代碼 / 代码 (zh) (dàimǎ), 密碼 / 密码 (zh) (mìmǎ)
- Czech: kód (cs) m
- Dutch: code (nl) m
- Esperanto: ĉifro, kodo (eo)
- Finnish: salakirjoitusjärjestelmä
- Galician: código (gl) m
- Georgian: კოდექსი (ḳodeksi)
- Greek: κώδικας (el) m (kódikas), κρυπτογράφημα (el) n (kryptográfima)
- Hebrew: קוֹד (he) m (kod)
- Hindi: कोड (hi) m (koḍ)
- Hungarian: kód (hu)
- Ido: kodexo (io)
- Italian: codice (it) m
- Japanese: 暗号 (ja) (あんごう, angō)
- Korean: 암호(暗號) (ko) (amho)
- Māori: uhingaro
- Occitan: còdi (oc) m
- Persian: کد (fa) (kod)
- Polish: kod (pl) m, szyfr (pl) m
- Portuguese: código (pt) m
- Romanian: cod (ro) n
- Russian: код (ru) m (kod), шифр (ru) m (šifr)
- Scottish Gaelic: còd m
- Slovak: kód m
- Spanish: código (es) m, clave (es) f
- Swedish: kod (sv) c
- Turkish: kod (tr)
- Ukrainian: код (uk) m (kod), шифр (uk) m (šyfr)
- Vietnamese: mật mã (vi)
- Welsh: cod m
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instructions for a computer Translations to be checked Verb
code (third-person singular simple present codes, present participle coding, simple past and past participle coded)
- (computing) To write software programs.
I learned to code on an early home computer in the 1980s.
- (transitive) To add codes to (a data set).
2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide[1], archived from the original on 10 February 2026, page 5:The resulting citation collection was databased and coded for meaning, etymon, and date range (earliest and latest occurrence found).
- To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
- (cryptography) To encode.
We should code the messages we send out on Usenet.
- (genetics, intransitive) To encode a protein.
- (informal, healthcare) To call a hospital emergency code.
coding in the CT scanner
- (informal, healthcare) Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
to write software programs to categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule cryptography: to encode
- Bulgarian: кодирам (bg) (kodiram)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 编码 (zh) (biānmǎ)
- Dutch: coderen (nl)
- Esperanto: kodi
- Finnish: salakirjoittaa
- German: verschlüsseln (de)
- Greek: κωδικοποιώ (el) (kodikopoió), κρυπτογραφώ (el) (kryptografó)
- Hebrew: קוֹדֵד (kodéd), הִצְפִּין (hitzpín)
- Hungarian: kódol (hu)
- Polish: kodować (pl)
- Portuguese: encriptar (pt), criptografar (pt), codificar (pt)
- Russian: коди́ровать (ru) impf (kodírovatʹ), закоди́ровать (ru) pf (zakodírovatʹ), шифрова́ть (ru) impf (šifrovátʹ), зашифрова́ть (ru) pf (zašifrovátʹ)
- Spanish: codificar (es), encriptar (es), criptografiar
- Ukrainian: кодува́ти (koduváty), шифрува́ти (šyfruváty)
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to suffer a sudden medical emergency
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: saada kohtaus
- German: crap
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Etymology 2
Noun
code (plural codes)
- Alternative form of cod.
Further reading
- “code”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “code”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “code”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present.
- “code”, in Merriam-Webster Online, Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, Inc., 1996–present.
- “code”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “code, n.”, in OED Online
 , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
- “code, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
- “cod, n.2”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
- “code”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Aromanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin coda, from Latin cauda. Compare Daco-Romanian coadă.
Noun
code f (plural codz, definite articulation coda)
- tail
Derived terms
Chinese
Alternative forms
Etymology
From English code.
Pronunciation
Noun
code
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) code (symbol)
- (Hong Kong Cantonese, computing) code
- 揼code [Cantonese] ― dap6 kuk1 [Jyutping] ― to write (computer) code
See also
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowing from French code, in the senses relating to laws and rules. Senses related to cryptography and coding have been borrowed from English code. Both derive from Old French code, from Latin cōdex.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkoː.də/
- Hyphenation: co‧de
Noun
code m (plural codes, diminutive codetje n)
- book or body of laws, code of laws, lawbook
- Synonym: wetboek
- system of rules and principles, e.g. of conduct
- code (set of symbols)
- code (text written in a programming language)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
French
Pronunciation
Noun
code m (plural codes)
- code
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
Anagrams
Friulian
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin cōda, variant of Latin cauda.
Pronunciation
Noun
code f (plural codis)
- tail
- queue, line
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈko.de/
- Rhymes: -ode
- Hyphenation: có‧de
Noun
code f
- plural of coda
Anagrams
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English cudu, cwidu, cweodu, from Proto-West Germanic *kwidu.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkud(ə)/, /ˈkoːd(ə)/, /ˈkweːd(ə)/, /ˈkwid(ə)/
Noun
code (uncountable)
- Any kind of plant gum; a gummy or resinous substance.
- Cud; regurgitated food chewed upon by livestock.
a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Osee 7:14”, in Wycliffe's Bible:And thei crieden not to me in her herte, but ȝelliden in her beddis. Thei chewiden code on wheete, and wyn, and thei ȝeden awei fro me.- And they didn't cry to me from their hearts; instead they whined in their beds. They chewed wheat and wine like cud, then they ran away from me.
- (rare) A mass or lump; a large pile of something.
Descendants
References
Etymology 2
From Old French code, from Latin cōdex, caudex.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
code (rare)
- A coherent and unified body of laws.
- The core of someone's last testament.
Descendants
References
Etymology 3
From Old English codd and Old Norse koddi.
Noun
code
- alternative form of codde (“seedpod”)
Old French
Noun
code oblique singular, m (oblique plural codes, nominative singular codes, nominative plural code)
- alternative form of coute
Portuguese
Verb
code
- inflection of codar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Tarantino
Noun
code
- tail
Vietnamese
Etymology
Borrowed from English code.
Pronunciation
Noun
code
- (programming) code
- Synonym: mã
Verb
code
- (computing, programming) to code
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