[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

code \code\ k=od, n. f., fr. l. codex, 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.
   1. 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.
      1913 webster

   note: the collection of laws made by the order of justinian
         is sometimes called, by way of eminence, "the code" .
         --wharton.
         1913 webster

   2. any system of rules or regulations relating to one
      subject; as, the medical code, a system of rules for the
      regulation of the professional conduct of physicians.
      1913 webster

   3. any set of symbols or combinations of symbols used for
      communication in any medium, such as by telegraph or
      semaphore. see morse code, and error-correcting code.
      pjc

   note: a system of rules for making communications at sea by
         means of signals has been referred to as the

   naval code.
      1913 webster

   4. any set of standards established by the governing
      authority of a geopolitical entity restricting the ways
      that certain activities may be performed, especially the
      manner in which buildings or specific systems within
      buildings may be constructed; as, a building code; a
      plumbing code; a health code.
      pjc

   5. any system used for secrecy in communication, in which the
      content of a communication is converted, prior to
      transmission, into symbols whose meaning is known only to
      authorized recipients of the message; such codes are used
      to prevent unauthorized persons from learning the content
      of the communication. the process of converting a
      communication into secret symbols by means of a code is
      called encoding or encryption. however, unauthorized
      persons may learn the code by various means, as in
      code-breaking.
      pjc

   6. an error-correcting code. see below.
      pjc

   7. computers the set of instructions for a computer program
      written by a programmer, usually in a programming language
      such as fortran, c, cobol, java, c++, etc.; also, the
      executable binary object code. all such programs except
      for the binary object code must be converted by a
      compiler program into object code, which is the
      arrangement of data bits which can be directly interpreted
      by a computer.
      pjc

   code civil or code napoleon, a code enacted in france in
      1803 and 1804, embodying the law of rights of persons and
      of property generally. --abbot.

   error-correcting code computers a set of symbols used to
      represent blocks of binary data, in which the original
      block of data is represented by a larger block of data
      which includes additional bits arranged in such a way that
      the original data may be read even if one or more of the
      bits of the encoded data is changed, as in a noisy
      communicaiton channel. various codes are available which
      can correct different numbers or patterns of errors in the
      transmitted data. such codes are used to achieve higher
      accuracy in data transmission, and in data storage devices
      such as disk drives and tape drives.

   object code computers the arrangement of bits stored in
      computer memory or a data storage device which, when fed
      to the instruction processor of a computer's central
      processing unit, can be interpreted directly as
      instructions for execution.

   genetic code biochemistry, genetics the set of
      correspondences between sequences of three bases codons
      in a rna chain to the amino acid which those three bases
      represent in the process of protein synthesis. thus, the
      sequence uuu codes for phenylalanine, and aug codes for
      methionine. there are twenty-one naturally-occurring amino
      acids, and sixty-four possible arrangements of three bases
      in rna; thus some of the amino acids are represented by
      more than one codon. several codons do not represent amino
      acids, but cause termination of the synthesis of a growing
      amnio acid chain.
      1913 webster +pjc

   note: the genetic code is represented by the following table:
         the genetic code
         =====================================================
         uuu phenylalanine phe auu isoleucine ile
         ucu serine ser acu threonine thr
         uau tyrosine tyr aau asparagine asn
         ugu cysteine cys agu serine ser
         uuc phe auc ile
         ucc ser acc thr
         uac tyr aac asn
         ugc cys agc ser
         uua leucine leu aua ile
         uca ser aca thr
         uaa stop aaa lysine lys
         uga stop aga arginine arg
         uug leu aug methionine met or start
         ucg ser acg thr
         uag stop aag lys
         ugg tryptophan trp agg arg
         cuu leucine leu guu valine val
         ccu proline pro gcu alanine ala
         cau histidine his gau aspartic acid asp
         cgu arginine arg ggu glycine gly
         cuc leu guc val
         ccu pro gcc ala
         cac his gac asp
         cgc arg ggc gly
         cua leu gua val
         cca pro gca ala
         caa glutamine gln gaa glutamic acid glu
         cga arg gga gly
         cug leu gug val
         ccg pro gcg ala
         cag gln gag glu
         cgg arg ggg gly
         pjc
see also:
morse code error-correcting code naval code encoding encryption code-breaking 
object code code civil code napoleon genetic code 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

code \code\ k=od, v. t.
   1. to convert a text or other information into a encoded
      form by means of a code5.
      pjc

   2. to write a computer program in a programming language; as,
      to code a sorting routine.
      pjc

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

code \code\ k=od, v. i. biochemistry, genetics
   to serve as the nucleotide sequence directing the synthesis
   of a particular amino acid or sequence of amino acids in
   protein biosynthesis; as, this sequence of nucleotides
   encodes the hemoglobin alpha chain..
   pjc

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

code
     n 1: a set of rules or principles or laws especially written
          ones syn: codification
     2: a coding system used for transmitting messages requiring
        brevity or secrecy
     3: computer science the symbolic arrangement of data or
        instructions in a computer program or the set of such
        instructions syn: computer code
     v 1: attach a code to; "code the pieces with numbers so that you
          can identify them later"
     2: convert ordinary language into code; "we should encode the
        message for security reasons" syn: encode, encipher,
        cipher, cypher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code
        ant: decode
see also:
codification computer code encode encipher cipher cypher 
encrypt inscribe write in code decode 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

158 moby thesaurus words for "code":
   aesopian language, babel, code napoleon, greek, napoleonic code,
   procrustean law, telautography, teletype, teletype network,
   teletyping, ten commandments, zeitgeist, argot, axiology, babble,
   behavioral norm, body of law, business ethics, canon, cant,
   capitulary, census, cipher, closed-circuit telegraphy,
   code of ethics, code of laws, code of morals, coded message,
   codification, commandment, convention, conventions, corpus juris,
   criterion, cryptoanalysis, cryptoanalytics, cryptogram,
   cryptograph, cryptographer, cryptography, customs, cypher,
   decalogue, dictum, digest, digest of law, double dutch,
   duplex telegraphy, electricity, encipher, encode, encrypt, equity,
   ethic, ethical system, ethics, ethos, facsimile telegraph, form,
   formality, formula, formulary, garble, general principle,
   gibberish, gift of tongues, glossolalia, gobbledygook, golden rule,
   guideline, guiding principle, imperative, index, interrupter,
   inventory, invisible ink, jargon, jumble, jurisprudence, key, law,
   law of nature, laws, legal ethics, maxim, medical ethics, mitzvah,
   moral, moral climate, moral code, moral principles, morals,
   multiplex telegraphy, new morality, news ticker, noise, norm,
   norma, normative system, order of nature, ordinance, organization,
   orthodoxy, pandect, penal code, practices, prescribed form,
   prescription, principium, principle, principles,
   professional ethics, protocol, quadruplex telegraphy,
   railroad telegraphy, receiver, regulation, regulations, rubric,
   rule, scramble, secret language, secret writing, sender, set form,
   settled principle, simplex telegraphy, single-current telegraphy,
   slang, social ethics, sounder, standard, standards, standing order,
   stock ticker, structure, submarine telegraphy, sympathetic ink,
   system, table, table of organization, telegraphics, telegraphy,
   teleprinter, teletypewriter, teletypewriting, telex, tenet, ticker,
   traditions, transmitter, typotelegraph, typotelegraphy,
   universal law, value system, wire service, working principle,
   working rule

[6] : Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)

code
     client/server open development environment powersoft
     
     

[7] : Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)

code
     color depth enhancement ati
     
     

[8] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

code n. the stuff that software writers write, either in source form or
   after translation by a compiler or assembler. often used in opposition
   to "data", which is the stuff that code operates on. this is a mass
   noun, as in "how much code does it take to do a bubble sort?", or "the
   code is loaded at the high end of ram." anyone referring to software as
   "the software codes" is probably a newbie or a suit.


see also:
bubble sort newbie suit 

[9] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

code
     
         instructions for a computer in some programming
        language, often machine language.  the word "code" is often
        used to distinguish instructions from data e.g. "the code
        is marked 'read-only'" whereas "software" is used in
        contrast with "hardware" and may consist of more than just
        code.
     
        2000-04-08
     
     
see also:
machine language data software hardware 

[10] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

code, legislation. signifies in general a collection of laws. it is a name 
given by way of eminence to a collection of such laws made by the 
legislature. among the most noted may be mentioned the following: 

[11] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

code, of louisiana. in 1822, peter derbigny, edward livingston, and moreau 
lislet, were selected by the legislature to revise and amend the civil code, 
and to add to it such laws still in force as were not included therein. they 
were authorized to add a system of commercial law, and a code of practice. 
the code the prepared having been adopted, was promulgated in 1824, under 
the title of the "civil code of the state of louisiana." 
     2. the code is based on the code napoleon, with proper and judicious 
modifications, suitable for the state of louisiana. it is composed of three 
books: 1. the first treats of persons; 2. the second of things, and of the 
different modifications of property; 3. and the third of the different modes 
of acquiring the property of things. it contains 3522 articles, numbered 
from the beginning, for the convenience of reference. 
     3. this code, it is said, contains many inaccurate definitions. the 
legislature modified and changed many of the provisions relating to the 
positive legislation, but adopted the definitions and abstract doctrines of 
the code without material alterations. from this circumstance, as well as 
from the inherent difficulty of the subject, the positive provisions of the 
code are often at variance with the theoretical part, which was intended to 
elucidate them. 13 l. r. 237. 
     4. this code went into operation on the 20th day of may,. 1825. 11 l. 
r. 60. it is in both the french and english languages; and in construing it, 
it is a rule that when the expressions used in the french text of the code 
are more comprehensive than those used in english, or vice versa, the more 
enlarged sense will be taken, as thus full effect will be given to both 
clauses. 2 n. s. 582. 

[12] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

code, justinian, civil law. a collection of the constitutions of the 
emperors, from adrian to justinian; the greater part of those from adrian to 
constantine are mere rescripts; those from constantine to justinian are 
edicts or laws, properly speaking. 
     2. the code is divided into twelve books, which are subdivided into 
titles, in which the constitutions are collected under proper heads. they 
are placed in chronological order, but often disjointed. at the head of each 
constitution is placed the name of the emperor who is the author, and that 
of the person to whom it is addressed. the date is at the end. several of 
these constitutions, which were formerly in the code were lost, it is 
supposed by the neglect of "copyists. some of them have been restored by 
modern authors, among whom may be mentioned charondas, cugas, and contius, 
who translated them from greek, versions. 

[13] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

code, napoleon. the code civil of france, enacted into law during the reign  
of napoleon, bore his name until the restoration of the bourbons when it was 
deprived of that name, and it is now cited code civil. 

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