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code | codewise |

As a noun code

is a short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.

As a verb code

is to write software programs.

As an adverb codewise is

in terms of code or a specific code.

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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    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In terms of code or a specific code.
  • * 1937 , Olga Johanna Martin, Hollywood's movie commandments (page 106)
    • A theme may be, in itself, perfectly moral, but if the plot is replete with offensive and unacceptable details, the entire story becomes unacceptable codewise .
  • * 1962 , IEEE transactions on computers: Volume 11
    • The four symbols are designated 1, 2, 3 and 4 and their codes are 0001, 0111, 1101 and 1100, respectively, as shown on the map in Fig. 4. Note that only symbols 3 and 4 are codewise adjacent.
  • * 2006 , Wesley Chun, Core Python Programming
    • So what is really happening codewise ? During runtime, the interpreter attempts to execute all the code within the try statement.