Code vs Law - What's the difference?
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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.
(lb) The body of rules and standards issued by a government, or to be applied by courts and similar authorities.
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, title= A particular such rule.
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*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish,I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.
(lb) A written or understood rule that concerns behaviours and their consequences. Laws are usually associated with mores.
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A well-established, observed physical characteristic or behavior of nature. The word is used to simply identify "what happens," without implying any explanatory mechanism or causation. Compare to theory.
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(lb) A statement that is true under specified conditions.
A category of English "common law" petitions that request monetary relief, as opposed to relief in forms other than a monetary judgment; compare to "equity".
(lb) One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the MCC.
The police.
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(lb) One of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to chaos.
An oath, as in the presence of a court. See wager of law.
(obsolete) a tumulus of stones
a hill
* 1892 , Robert Louis Stevenson, Across the Plains
As nouns the difference between code and law
is that code is a short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents while law is the body of rules and standards issued by a government, or to be applied by courts and similar authorities.As a verb code
is to write software programs.As an interjection law is
an exclamation of mild surprise; lawks.As a proper noun Law is
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English
(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.
Derived terms
* coder * cSNP * decode * encode * hard-codedExternal links
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English
(wikipedia law)Etymology 1
From (etyl) lawe, and gesetnes. More at (l).Noun
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.
Hyponyms
* sharia lawDerived terms
* above the law * against the law * a law unto oneself * * Avogadro’s law * Beer-Lambert law * Boyle’s law * bylaw * canon law * Charles’ law * civil law * common law * contract law * corn laws * Coulomb’s law * criminal law * de Morgan’s laws * employment law * family law * Faraday’s laws * federal law * feudal law * Fourier’s law * Gauss’s law * Graham’s law * Gresham’s law * Henry’s law * Hooke’s law * Hubble’s law * international law * into law * Kepler’s laws of planetary motion * Kerchoff’s laws * law and order * lawful * lawgiver * lawlike * law lord * lawmaker, law-maker * law of cosines * law of large numbers * law of sines * law of small numbers * law of tangents * law of the land * law of the tongue * lay down the law * long arm of the law * lynch law * martial law * Moore’s law * Murphy's law * natural law * Newton’s law of cooling * Newton’s law of gravitation * Newton’s laws of motion * Ohm’s law * physical law * power law * Poiseuille’s law * possession is nine points of the law * property law * Roman law * statuate (statute)+law=statuate law (US) * state law * statute law (Commonwealth English) * Stefan-Boltzmann law * Stokes’ law * sus law * take the law into one’s own hands * the law is an ass * three laws of robotics * unwritten law * Zipf’s lawSee also
* * *Etymology 2
From (etyl) . Also spelled low.Noun
(en noun)- You might climb the Law [...] and behold the face of many counties.
Etymology 3
Compare (la).References
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