code
/koʊd/ verb C1- To write software programs. · I learned to code on an early home computer in the 1980s.
- To add codes to (a data set).
- 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.
He/she/it codes · Past coded · Past participle coded · -ing form coding
Verb forms
- Base form
- code
- He/she/it
- codes
- Past
- coded
- Past participle
- coded
- -ing form
- coding
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Among these men there was a stringent code of honour, any infringement of which was punished by death.
There is only one punishment in his code.
As for his wife, he bowed to her, as some husbands do to their wives, but in a way that bachelors will never comprehend, until a very extensive code is published on conjugal life.
Only I warn you, that when I reside in a country, I conform to all its code, and I have no wish to put myself within the compass of the French laws for your sake.”
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