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code

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    noun

    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.

                        verb

                        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