Directive vs Code - What's the difference?
directive | code |
An instruction or guideline that indicates how to perform an action or reach a goal.
An authoritative decision from an official body, which may or may not have binding force.
(European Union law) A form of legislative act addressed to the Member States. The directive binds the Member State to reach certain objectives in their national legislation.
The directive case.
that directs
serving to direct, indicate, or guide.
(grammar) relating to the directive case
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)
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.
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, title= (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.
(computing) To write software programs.
To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
(cryptography) To encode.
(medicine) Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency such as cardiac arrest.
(genetics) To encode a protein.
As a noun directive
is an instruction or guideline that indicates how to perform an action or reach a goal.As an adjective directive
is that directs.As a verb code is
.directive
English
(wikipedia directive)Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(-)code
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(wikipedia code)Noun
(en noun)- The collection of laws made by the order of Justinian is sometimes called, by way of eminence, "The Code ".
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 .}}
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 codeSee also
* cipherVerb
- I learned to code on an early home computer in the 1980s.
- We should code the messages we sent out on Usenet.