code Synonyms & Antonyms
Choose a meaning, then find a word that fits your sentence.
Code as a Noun
A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.
This flavour of soup has been assigned the code WRT-9.
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.
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.
A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
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.
I wrote some code to reformat text documents.
(scientific programming) A program.
A particular lect or language variety.
An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.
Code as a Verb
To write software programs.
I learned to code on an early home computer in the 1980s.
To add codes to a dataset.
To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
To encode.
We should code the messages we send out on Usenet.
To encode a protein.
To call a hospital emergency code.
coding in the CT scanner
Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest.
Code in a Sentence
This flavour of soup has been assigned the code WRT-9.
The medical code is a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians.
I wrote some code to reformat text documents.
I learned to code on an early home computer in the 1980s.
We should code the messages we send out on Usenet.
coding in the CT scanner