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scrip | code |

As a noun scrip

is a small medieval bag used to carry food, money, utensils etc or scrip can be a scrap of paper or scrip can be a share certificate or scrip can be (informal|british) a medical prescription.

As a verb code is

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scrip

English

(wikipedia scrip)

Etymology 1

An aphetism of (etyl) , a variant of escharpe, from (etyl) skreppa.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small medieval bag used to carry food, money, utensils etc.
  • * 1919, , Duckworth, hardback edition, page 9
  • Depositing his scrip in the outhouse the cowherd glanced around.
  • * 1964 , Nothing Like the Sun
  • A night promising fair, scented, the moon in her third quarter, nightingales in the wood, WS, in worn cloak against the morning’s chill, empty scrip and purse, taking the road. —
  • Small change.
  • * 1899, , The Brick Moon and Other Stories] , (Short Story Index Reprint Series), Project Gutenberg, [1999, Etext #1633
  • In reading it in 1899, I am afraid that the readers of a hard, money generation may not know that "scrip " was in the sixties the name for small change.

    Etymology 2

    Probably from a conflation of (m) and (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A scrap of paper.
  • A document certifying possession of land, or in lieu of money.
  • A voucher or token coin used in payrolls under the .
  • Any substitute for legal tender that is produced by a natural person or private legal person and is often a form of credit.
  • Etymology 3

    Abbreviation of .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A share certificate.
  • Etymology 4

    Abbreviation of (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal, British) A medical prescription.
  • Anagrams

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    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

    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

    Anagrams

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