code
noun
[ kəʊd ]
• a system of words, letters, figures, or symbols used to represent others, especially for the purposes of secrecy.
• "the Americans cracked their diplomatic code"
• program instructions.
• "assembly code"
• a systematic collection of laws or statutes.
• "a revision of the penal code"
Similar:
law,
laws,
body of law,
rules,
regulations,
constitution,
system,
charter,
canon,
jurisprudence,
code
verb
• convert (the words of a message) into a code so as to convey a secret meaning.
• "only Mitch knew how to read the message—even the name was coded"
• write code for (a computer program).
• "most developers code C + + like C"
• be the genetic code for (an amino acid or protein).
• "genes that code for human growth hormone"
Origin:
Middle English: via Old French from Latin codex, codic- (see codex). The term originally denoted a systematic collection of statutes made by Justinian or another of the later Roman emperors; compare with code (sense 3 of the noun) (mid 18th century), the earliest modern sense.
