codes

A short symbol, 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.

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.”

A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.

A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.

A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.

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.

“I wrote some code to reformat text documents.”

(scientific programming) A program.

A particular lect or language variety.

An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.

To write software programs.

“I learned to code on an early home computer in the 1980s.”

To add codes to a dataset.

To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.

To encode.

“We should code the messages we send out on Usenet.”

To encode a protein.

To call a hospital emergency code.

“coding in the CT scanner”

Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest.