code

Speech parts

1. code - Noun

2. code - Verb

3. Code - Proper noun

Meaning

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 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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

cipher cypher law ordinance cryptogram encrypt encipher canon standard program policy convention notation codification script
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Antonyms

all problem question notable request challenge
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Hypernyms

mark label tag black and white encode coding system

Hyponyms

cypher morse Morse code access reference address

Phrases with the word

code of conduct Morton code Edelcrantz code Chappe code Grabovoi code Beckett-Gray code

Anagrams

deco coed ecod OECD cedo

Examples

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. Larry Wall

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. Frédéric Bastiat

I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world. Malcolm Bradbury

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. William O. Douglas

If you just want to use the system, instead of hacking on its internals, you don't need source code. Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. Brian Kernighan

Close letter words and terms

codds first normal form coddy coddymoddy code 99 code and the code of criminal procedure code bars