codes

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/kəʊdz/ English

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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.

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.”

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