Definitions
1.nounA short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents."This flavour of soup has been assigned the code WRT-9."
2.nounA 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.
3.nounAny 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."
4.nounA set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
5.nounA message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
6.nounA cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
7.nounInstructions 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."
8.noun(scientific programming) A program.
9.nounA particular lect or language variety.
10.nounAn emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.
11.verbTo write software programs."I learned to code on an early home computer in the 1980s."
12.verbTo add codes to a dataset.
13.verbTo categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
14.verbTo encode."We should code the messages we send out on Usenet."
15.verbTo encode a protein.
16.verbTo call a hospital emergency code."coding in the CT scanner"