coded
adjective
[ ˈkəʊdɪd ]
• converted into a code to convey a secret meaning.
• "secret coded messages"
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.
