单词 | coding |
释义 | codingn. 1. Originally in Telegraphy: the preparation of a message for transmission by putting it into code words (now chiefly historical). Later also: the conversion of a message into any form of code or cipher, for speed or secrecy in communication; the action of encoding or enciphering; encryption.With the increased use of sense 3, this sense has become uncommon. See note on usage at code n. 4b. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > code, cipher > [noun] > conversion into code ciphering1536 coding1866 encoding1953 encryption1960 enciphering1977 1866 Daily News 24 Aug. 4/5 Coding is to telegraphy what telegraphy was to letter-writing not many years ago. It bridges over space more certainly, effects an enormous saving in time, and is imperfectly understood. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 7 June 7/3 Coding had been really reduced to a fine art, and by its aid the cost of a cablegram was often reduced not merely to a penny per word, but to a farthing. 1948 F. L. Alt in B. Randell Origins Digital Computers (1973) vi. 272 For the purpose of coding and decoding, the code letters of an order are divided into groups in such a way that the meaning of a code letter is uniquely determined by the group in which it stands. 1962 Collier's Encycl. (new ed.) VI. 685/2 The one-part code can be used for both ‘coding’ and ‘decoding’ and usually has the plain language meanings listed alphabetically, with the code words. 2. The action or process of assigning a code to something for purposes of classification or identification; a code used for classification or identification. Also as a modifier. ΚΠ 1918 C. F. Gettemy Decennial Census 1915 (Commonwealth of Massachusetts) 23 Preliminary to the coding of the male schedules..they were subjected to re-examination and scrutiny for the purposes of verifying the original editing so far as entries relating to political condition were concerned. 1939 National Assoc. Cost Accountants Bull. 20 857 A representative of the manufacturing superintendant's office was designated to assign codings to each variance ticket written. 1947 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 110 139 The time required for coding, punching and verifying the same number of full census cards, with the same operators and the equivalent coding staff. 1984 J. Partridge One Touch Photogr. 98 The first thing that happens when your film reaches the photographic laboratory is coding to make sure it gets back to you. 1991 Purchasing & Supply Managem. Apr. 33/1 Any cargo delivered to airlines without such coding on the airwaybill or break-down manifest will in future not be accepted. 1995 Which? Dec. 12/2 Our tests also looked at the coding system on microwave ovens which is meant to ensure you select the correct cooking time for chilled ready meals. 2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 1 June iv. 11/2 (advt.) Supervise and monitor the coding, abstracting and analysis of medical records to ensure complete and accurate coding of diagnoses and procedures. 2018 Alaska Disp. News (Nexis) 3 Aug. Billing and medical coding technicians, medical office receptionists, nurse aides and phlebotomists are also critical positions that do not require the expense of several years of study. 3. Computing. The conversion of information into code usable by a computer or other machine; the writing or editing of code for a computer program, application, etc. Also: computer code. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > programming language > program or code > [noun] > action programming1942 coding1946 applications engineering1947 computer programming1952 applications programming1962 application programming1965 1946 Man. Operation Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (Harvard Computation Lab.) ii. 15 Every line of coding must contain a 7 in the Miscellaneous column or its equivalent in the form of some other automatic continue operation code. 1947 H. H. Goldstine & J. Von Neumann (title) Planning and coding of problems for an electronic computing instrument. 1958 New Scientist 13 Feb. 51/2 (advt.) Computer coder... To undertake the coding and final preparation of digital computer programmes. 1982 Computerworld 8 Nov. 11/2 One programmer/analyst may prefer coding while his job-share partner may prefer the design aspects of the job. 2004 L. D. Dickson & T. A. Good in G. F. Marshall Handbk. Optical & Laser Scanning x. 509 The coding is contained in the relative widths or spacings of the dark bars and light spaces. 2018 @SzilviCodes 5 Dec. in twitter.com (accessed 7 June 2019) I had the chance to listen to the stories of a few ladies who changed careers and got into coding through some untraditional routes, just like myself. 4. Linguistics. The action of representing or expressing (an utterance, idea, etc.) in a language or a particular dialect or register of a language; an instance of this. Also as a modifier. ΚΠ 1953 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 74 330 What gives a piece of writing freshness and character is the demand, almost the disturbance, which it makes in coding. 1955 Language 31 424 A speaker generates a message according to his own motor language structure, but the interpretation of the message will depend upon the previous linguistic experience of the listener... Thus nonhomogeneity of coding systems may also cause a loss in transmitted information. 1964 L. Kaiser in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 103 Direct connections between both processes of coding–decoding are found in spelling. 2018 D. N. Djenar et al. Style & Intersubjectivity in Youth Interaction iii. 64 Benveniste..took the linguistic category of person—the coding of ‘I’ and ‘you’ in language—as central to the human ability to swap perspectives and thus as the origin of subjectivity. 5. Biology. The storage of information for protein synthesis in a sequence of nucleotides by means of the genetic code (cf. code n. 6). Cf. code v. 5. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > [noun] > genetic information storage code script1915 code1944 plastome1954 coding1956 triplet code1957 1956 F. Crick Let. 30 Apr. in H. F. Judson Eighth Day Creation (1979) vi. 318 Re coding. Leslie [Orgel], John Griffith & I have deduced the magic 20, using a code having 3 bases to 1 amino acid. 1964 G. H. Haggis et al. Introd. Molecular Biol. viii. 212 The question of how a sequence made up from four different bases might specify unambiguously a sequence made up from twenty different amino acids is known as ‘the coding problem’. 2007 T. Friend Third Domain iii. 73 The coding of ribosomes held grand promise for revealing fundamental evolutionary information about cells. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). codingadj. Molecular Biology. That contains or forms part of the genetic code; esp. (of a section of a nucleic acid molecule) that contains the information for the production of a peptide sequence. Compare non-coding adj. at non- prefix 6d. ΚΠ 1957 G. D. Novelli & J. A. Demoss in Jrnl. Cellular & Compar. Physiol. Suppl. No. 1. 190 The assumption of a triad as the basic coding unit, however, encounters structural problems. 1959 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 45 1025 Those mutations..would then represent instances in which a nucleotide change leads to a different coding sequence. 1984 M. J. Taussig Processes in Pathol. & Microbiol. (ed. 2) iii. 235 To produce functional mRNA the non-coding regions are excised and the coding segments rejoined (ligated). 2015 N.Y. Times Mag. 8 Mar. 62/2 Instead of being overwhelmingly packed with coding DNA, the genome was made up mostly of noncoding DNA. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1866adj.1957 |
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