• (RP) IPA: /kəʊd/
• (America) IPA: /koʊd/

From Middle English code, from Old French code, from Latin cōdex, later form of caudex ("the stock or stem of a tree, a board or tablet of wood smeared over with wax, on which the ancients originally wrote; hence, a book, a writing.").

code

1. A short textual designation, often with little relation to the item it represents.

   This flavour of soup has been assigned the code WRT-9.

2. 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.
   • 1872, Francis Wharton, A Treatise on the Conflict of Laws:

     the mild and impartial spirit which pervades the Code compiled under Canute

3. Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.

   The medical code is a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians.

   The naval code is a system of rules for making communications at sea by means of signals.

4. A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
   1. By synecdoche: a codeword, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity.

      The ASCII code of "A" is 65.

5. A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
6. (cryptography) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
7. (programming, uncountable) 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.

   Object-oriented C++ code is easier to understand for a human than C code.

   I wrote some code to reformat text documents.

   This HTML code may be placed on your web page.

8. (scientific programming) A program.
9. (linguistics) A particular lect or language variety.
10. (medicine) An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.
11. (informal) A set of unwritten rules that bind a social group.

    girl code

• Russian: код
• Spanish: código

• French: code
• German: Gesetzbuch
• Portuguese: código
• Russian: ко́декс
• Spanish: código

• French: code
• German: Kodex
• Portuguese: código
• Russian: ко́декс
• Spanish: código

• French: code
• German: Code, Kode
• Italian: codice
• Portuguese: código
• Russian: код
• Spanish: código

• Portuguese: código
• Russian: код
• Spanish: código, clave

• French: code
• German: Code, Kode
• Russian: код
• Spanish: código

code (codes, present participle coding; simple past and past participle coded)

1. (computing) To write software programs.

   I learned to code on an early home computer in the 1980s.

2. (transitive) To add codes to (a data set).
3. To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
4. (cryptography) To encode.

   We should code the messages we send out on Usenet.

5. (genetics, intransitive) To encode a protein.
6. (medicine) To call a hospital emergency code.

   coding in the CT scanner

• French: programmer
• German: programmieren, koden (coden)
• Italian: programmare
• Portuguese: programar
• Russian: программи́ровать
• Spanish: programar

• German: verschlüsseln

• German: verschlüsseln
• Portuguese: encriptar, criptografar, codificar
• Russian: коди́ровать
• Spanish: codificar, encriptar, criptografiar

From code blue, a medical emergency.

code (codes, present participle coding; simple past and past participle coded)

1. (medicine) Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency a code blue such as cardiac arrest.

• German: crap

1. Surname.