Scrip vs Code - What's the difference?
scrip | code |
A small medieval bag used to carry food, money, utensils etc.
* 1919, , Duckworth, hardback edition, page 9
* 1964 , Nothing Like the Sun
Small change.
* 1899, ,
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.
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.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
, 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 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
.scrip
English
(wikipedia scrip)Etymology 1
An aphetism of (etyl) , a variant of escharpe, from (etyl) skreppa.Noun
(en noun)- Depositing his scrip in the outhouse the cowherd glanced around.
- 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. —
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)Etymology 3
Abbreviation of .Etymology 4
Abbreviation of (m).Anagrams
*code
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.