code

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.”

“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.

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

programmingInstructions 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 programmingA program.

linguisticsA particular lect or language variety.

medicineAn emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.

informalA set of unwritten rules that bind a social group.

A set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones)

A coding system used for transmitting messages requiring brevity or secrecy

computingTo 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.

cryptographyTo encode.

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

geneticsTo encode a protein.

medicineTo call a hospital emergency code.

“coding in the CT scanner”

medicineTo go into a state where a hospital emergency code is required to save one's life.

“He coded out of nowhere”

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

Convert ordinary language into code

“We should encode the message for security reasons”