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Basis vs Code - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between basis and code

is that basis is a starting point, base or foundation for an argument or hypothesis while code is a short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.

As a verb code is

to write software programs.

basis

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A starting point, base or foundation for an argument or hypothesis.
  • An underlying condition or circumstance.
  • * 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban'' (in ''The Guardian , 6 September 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/sep/06/england-moldova-world-cup-qualifier-matchreport]
    • Hodgson may now have to bring in James Milner on the left and, on that basis , a certain amount of gloss was taken off a night on which Welbeck scored twice but barely celebrated either before leaving the pitch angrily complaining to the Slovakian referee.
  • regular frequency
    • You should brush your teeth on a daily basis at minimum.
    The flights to Fiji leave on a weekly basis .
    Cars must be checked on a yearly basis .
  • (linear algebra) In a vector space, a linearly independent set of vectors spanning the whole vector space.
  • (accounting) Amount paid for an investment, including commissions and other expenses.
  • (topology) A collection of subsets ("basis elements") of a set, such that this collection covers the set, and for any two basis elements which both contain an element of the set, there is a third basis element contained in the intersection of the first two, which also contains that element.

    • Usage notes

    * The construction "on a daily/weekly/etc. basis" is usually an unnecessarily-wordy substitute for simply "daily/weekly/etc."

    Derived terms

    * basis point (4) * tax basis * fare basis * cost basis * basic

    Synonyms

    * (starting point for discussion) base

    References

    Anagrams

    * * English nouns with irregular plurals ----

    code

    English

    (wikipedia code)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.
  • 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.
  • * (Francis Wharton) (1820-1899)
    • The collection of laws made by the order of Justinian is sometimes called, by way of eminence, "The Code ".
  • Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject; as, the medical code, a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians; the naval code, a system of rules for making communications at sea 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.
  • A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Magician’s brain , passage=[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes .}}
  • (label) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words]] or phrases into [[codeword, codewords.
  • (label) 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.
  • # By synecdoche: any piece of a program, of a document or something else written in a computer language.

    • Derived terms

    * binary code * civil code * code page * codebook * codestream * codeword * colour code * dead code * Gray code * machine code * managed code * Morse code * opcode * promo code * pseudocode * sort code * Unicode * unreachable code

    Related terms

    * codex * codifier * codify * codification

    See also

    * cipher

    Verb

  • (computing) To write software programs.
    • I learned to code on an early home computer in the 1980s.
  • To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
  • (cryptography) To encode.
    • We should code the messages we sent out on Usenet.
  • (medicine) Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency such as cardiac arrest.
  • (genetics) To encode a protein.

    • Derived terms

    * coder * cSNP * decode * encode * hard-coded

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