Definition of code in English:

code

noun kəʊdkoʊd

1A system of words, letters, figures, or symbols used to represent others, especially for the purposes of secrecy.
the Americans cracked their diplomatic code
mass noun messages written in code
Example sentencesExamples
- After Evan figures out the code to a mysterious paper that Lisa picks up, they head towards mayhem.
- He is writing letters in code, there would be no reason for that unless he had something to hide.
- Some of the neoconservatives in the Pentagon had let it slip to him that they had broken the country's diplomatic codes.
- The code is given in figure 1a, and an example conversion is shown in figure 1b.
- It was in her language, it was just a different code to the written words.
- He eventually figures out the code when he absent-mindedly reads the general's doodling on a pad.
- And if they can break the code on even one message, we're sunk.
- Alongside the body are a series of baffling codes, which Langdon is asked to decipher.
- These include the letters, written in code, which are said to make clear she was in favour of inflicting pain on her enemies.
- She turned and began again to figure the codes, and another plan to get out of this cellar.
- Cryptography is the enciphering and deciphering of messages in secret code or cipher.
- If he gave us accurate predictions of the future as a reward for figuring out the code, we are to believe he expects us not to use it to our advantage?
- We are still trying to figure out what the codes mean, but we feel we are very close to cracking it.
- She played a key role in the recruitment and briefing of agents, and became an expert writer of letters in code.
- The most well-known example is the breaking of the Japanese diplomatic and military codes before and during WWII.
- Codes and great historical figures go together like the author of a certain fantastical thriller involving Leonardo da Vinci has shown.
- I often figured out codes long before the characters did, which was annoying.
- The spread of mobile telephones and even the use of secret words or codes show that secrecy is essential to close deals or pass on information.
- She rubbed her temple, trying to figure out the code before her, when she heard a knock at the door.
- They were the high-level diplomatic and military codes, the kind of which had never been cracked.
Synonyms
cipher, secret language, secret writing, set of symbols, key, hieroglyphics
coded message, cryptogram
rare cryptograph
1. 1.1 A phrase or concept used to represent another in an indirect way.
  ‘We'll catch up soon’ is usually a code for ‘I'm not that into you’
  Example sentencesExamples
  PC is essentially an etiquette, a series of codes by which we are supposed to live our lives.
  I recognise - more than the words, the codes and silences - the force of all the things unsaid.
  Now, I wondered if he had been sending me code, offering me a front-row seat to some action.
  Synonyms
  form of words, set expression, phrase, saying, aphorism
2. 1.2 A series of letters, numbers, or symbols assigned to something for the purposes of classification or identification.
  each box had a label with the code SC 90
  Example sentencesExamples
  The scientist nimbly punched a short combo and a green light acknowledged a correct code.
  Games are activated by sending an access code to the company with an Internet connection.
  I picked up the phone, punching in the code to hear our messages.
  Currently, companies are the smallest army element to be routinely assigned unit identification codes.
  I registered with them today and apparently it takes 7 days for them to send through the activation code.
  The first two letters represent a regional code, the two numbers represent the year and the last three letters are random.
  We are seeing boats coming in from all over the world with manufacturer identification codes assigned by their country of origin.
  Biometric identifiers are digital codes that cannot be used to reconstitute your image or fingerprint.
  The officer turned to face a terminal, inserting an identicard and entering a series of codes.
  If approved, the server sends back an activation code.
  With a pre-assigned code, you can send documents to a queue, then access them for printing at any time, such as at hotel and airport business centers.
  The magazine sent us the access code to view its upcoming issue, which I believe will hit the news-stands on Tuesday.
  Responses were recorded, assigned a letter code, and calculated using frequencies and percentages.
  The next second, I punch in the code to check my messages.
  The machine beeped in recognition of the code and the numbers flashed momentarily across the screen.
  Not only had I managed to follow the guard I even figured out what the code was.
  They never got to the end, though, because they never figured out the last code to open the 7 gates.
  They are commonly represented by a single letter code where the index represents the absorption maximum.
  An e-voter would go to one site to register and would then be issued with the pass codes to vote in secrecy at another site.
  The man rapidly typed a code into a security system and a loud buzzing sound signaled the door's release.
3. 1.3
  I was given the number, but not the code for Guildford
  short for dialling code
2Computing
mass noun Program instructions.
assembly code
Example sentencesExamples
- Millions of lines of software code are involved, and we haven't even gotten to matters like billing and maintenance.
- We had to program in assembly code and call a play routine every vertical blank.
- This time it was traced to a college student in Romania who had also left obvious clues to his identity in the code.
- Once infected with the code, the computer sends the same message to other contacts in the instant-messenger list.
- Nobody studies the old code, and nobody figures out where it is inefficient and why, and as a consequence programs are often buggy and less stable.
- Early programmers worked in native computer code or machine language.
- He adds that progress on debugging code is a tad slow, pointing to threads you can find on this bulletin board.
- The code then downloads spyware programs to surfers' PCs, including one that steals credit card numbers and other forms of financial information.
- They could access the underlying code and tweak the program at will.
- Hackers gain secret control of the computers by sending e-mail viruses and worms or by planting software code on web sites.
- It allows Delphi and C++ programmers to compile code to either operating system.
- The answer is 609,000 and this is the number of lines of code in the software for the computers and avionics systems.
- Wait a minute, I'm a software engineer… why not look at their code and try to figure out some of their major weaknesses.
- He encouraged people to look at his program and modify it for their own needs and to send him their code to add to the system.
- Using this drag-and-drop methodology, users can create program code with minimal user input or understanding.
- The trick, of course, would be inserting the rogue code into the host program in the first place.
- This is the process that analyzes an HTML document in comparison to standard HTML rules, identifying errors and non-standard codes.
- If the malware inside this ZIP file is opened, the Trojan may attempt to download more malicious code from a pre-programmed list of websites.
- Indeed if ever there was a case for the open sourcing of program code then this is it.
- Errors from programming code and malformed html can keep the search engine robots from indexing your web pages.
3A systematic collection of laws or statutes.
a revision of the penal code
Example sentencesExamples
- The penal code does not criminalize such conduct, and would be clearly unconstitutional if it did.
- The constitution, the penal code, and international and human rights conventions are the only guide to what is acceptable and what is not.
- When he put up a tricolour atop his factory, the police slapped a case on him for violating the flag code.
- This is itself a judicial interpolation into the statutory code.
- Under the doctrine of breach of statutory duty some regulatory codes may give rise to civil liability when breached.
- With the growing power of the state, statutory tenure codes were drawn up by centralized governments, reflecting the values and interests of the state.
- In many states, there is a criminal code which tabulates criminal offences.
- The difficult concept of ‘adverse possession’ of private property appears in both codes in a nearly identical manner.
- The Muslim minority views the code as an indirect abrogation of their cultural freedom.
- With compliance to building codes a given, the real question on many projects is whether it is worthwhile to go beyond code requirements.
- You look and see what principles have been established in prior cases rather than just referring to a piece of legislation or a code.
- Civil law and commercial law derive from the French, while the penal code is influenced by the British model.
- Despite the stark words of the various codes regulating ministerial and MSP conduct, the MSPs of various parties will let the First Minister off.
- It would be perfectly possible for a criminal code to provide separate crimes of negligence, with lower maximum sentences, at appropriate points in the hierarchy of offences.
- He submitted that implementation of planning permissions was not dealt with by the statutory code.
- Under the old code, mothers were assigned priority in matters of child custody, and fathers were granted visiting rights.
- Dissidence, even active, is not war and the normal criminal and civil codes of law still apply.
- Influenced by popular discontent with much of the judiciary, Napoleon attempted to write a statutory code that was essentially judge-proof.
- In order to conform to strict fire codes the employer shall have the right to conduct safety inspections and fire drills at the employees home at any time.
- In Warwick, only 75 miles away, these activities are all deemed acceptable farming uses under the zoning code.
Synonyms
law, laws, body of law, rules, regulations, constitution, system, charter, canon, jurisprudence
1. 3.1 A set of conventions or moral principles governing behaviour in a particular sphere.
  a strict dress code
  a stern code of honour
  Example sentencesExamples
  Does this country possess the courage to affirm a common code of principles, of manners?
  There is no supreme code of behavior that dictates who I have to be nice to.
  There's no formal code of behavior, at least none I've been able to fathom.
  I know, the old moral codes weren't painless either.
  To be worthy of that love, he adopted a strict code of moral conduct.
  While a code of secrecy applies, there also exists a pool of top homeowners willing to sell their properties if the price is right, even though they are not on the market.
  In almost every case the wrongdoing is by a few since most people operate according to high moral codes whatever the degree of disorganization.
  The suggestion seems to be that they offer him a sense of family and belonging, and that he identifies with their dubious code of loyalty.
  Chandelor wanted his so-called knights to have honor, a moral code of ethics, things with which tradition would expect.
  For one thing, it means that we can have different codes of morality, one code for the public self, the other for the private self.
  This is so profoundly a part of the military code of behavior that it cannot be over-emphasized.
  There are already many accepted codes of practice for magick but they weren't formulated with modern modes of communication in mind.
  Edwards said the code of conduct was sent to parents as a matter of course and was unrelated to Wednesday's match.
  The code dictated concepts such as loyalty, honor and virtue.
  The authorities obviously want to continue to maintain the code of secrecy of all the corruption perpetrated.
  There is no written code of conduct for these venues, although each one will have a slightly different unwritten code of behavior.
  I was one of two writers invited by the commission on culture and sport to help an ad hoc committee put into words a new code of practice.
  When people are designing their own religions and their own moral codes, is it any shock that they're designing their own politics, too?
  The gentlemen's code also served to limit aggressive behavior after the battle.
  They believe these activities may violate their code of conduct and bring shame upon them.
  Use of these drugs is routinely equated with socially degraded status and participation in activities indicative of the code of the streets.
  But these are not the sort of thing that a good company man does; a remarkably effective code bans such behavior.
  Instead, the real issue is getting golf's expanding legions of fans to adhere to a time-honored code of behavior.
  Utmost secrecy was the dictator's code of practice and few witnesses survived to testify about his daily life.
  While today we may disagree with some of the wording or even the concepts in this early code of ethics, few would disagree with its intent or its essence.
  In fact, among surfers there's a fairly rigid code of beach behavior, which includes a strict pecking order.
  Sir, my research indicates that there is no code of dress prescribed or agreed upon for attorneys appearing in the magistrates court.
  A sly and sophisticated writer, he could always get around the code of silence with indirection.
  The Government has laid out its ideas for a proposed voluntary code to govern how communication firms handle calls, e-mails and web access.
  They have their own code of morals and honor, just like anyone else.
  We need each other, but women have always been the ones to set the moral codes, to keep men and their children on the right track.
  The rigid social, moral and behavioural codes imposed by the group included severe restrictions on women's freedom of movement, expression and association.
  The ombudsman criticised the school for breaking strict admissions rules set out in the code of practice on comprehensive admissions.
  The prejudging judgment might be as broad as the spoken English language, or the dictionary, or some other code or convention.
  I applaud both the concept of a code of ethics by which industry members are bound, and the revamping of the disciplinary process.
  A 13-point code of conduct governing all buskers working in Oxford is expected to come into force next month.
  Why have ethical codes not figured prominently in discussions of the peer review process?
  Religion has as much to do with the furnishing of moral and ethical codes as it does with non-natural explanations of the origins of the universe.
  The nations that survive and prosper and become world powers are the ones that adhere to strict moral codes.
  The actors of today are simply too pretty and too vacant to depict the men and women of sterner days and stricter moral codes.
  Synonyms
  set of principles, set of standards, set of customs
  manners, ethics, morals
  morality, convention, accepted behaviour, etiquette, protocol

verb kəʊdkoʊd

[with object]

1Convert (the words of a message) into a code so as to convey a secret meaning.
only Mitch knew how to read the message—even the name was coded
Example sentencesExamples
- The package enables audio traffic - such as a phone conversation - to be coded as data, sent down an internet connection and then decoded at the other end.
- Given that the messages are claimed to be coded, it would seem that network editing is unlikely to pick them out.
- Three-fourths of the message has already been deciphered, but the remaining fourth has apparently been coded in an entirely different way.
- But markets only respond to messages coded in the language of prices.
- Not only may they be purposely babbling and coding their conversations to confuse the eavesdroppers, but there are also the complexities of language itself.
- It is an awareness of how language codes the way we view the world, and how membership in various communities influences our understanding of the world.
- Places carry meanings and are coded with narrative significances, and these built-in values are useful to writers.
- Thus the hats contain a message coded in the manner in which they are worn.
- Sometimes the information she communicates is coded or covert - where exactly the missing animal may be found, for instance.
- There were little clues, like the fact that messages often started with a weather report, or the fact that Enigma never ever coded a given letter as itself.
1. 1.1 Express the meaning of (a statement) in an indirect way.
  they code their language when talking to the general public
  Example sentencesExamples
  There were hints about social security reform and coded signals about moving to a flat tax, but this speech, like this convention, was a war speech.
  This minority group has long been coded in U.S. popular culture as a threat, a people who keep their motives and means well hidden.
  In a curious move, bombing the country is coded as a greater humanitarian good than feeding or educating people.
  This visual narrative appears to have incorporated other animal stories as well as interjected some coded political statements.
  But then, as he says of himself, he must be coded an optimist.
  How is a reader supposed to understand what an article is actually about if everything is all coded and coy?
  The Singaporean filmmaker argues that he's only amplifying what's already coded into the fable.
  Petroleum wealth seems often to be coded as undeserved and also as automatically making people rich.
  It is also one of the reasons why music is coded, and the political purposes of the musicians do not necessarily coincide with the political sentiments expressed in the lyrics.
  He has removed any potential threat of even coded criticism from the foreign secretary by removing him from his post.
  On the back of this page are the directions to it, coded as a precaution.
  Enigmatic, coded, complicated, the film is a distinctive commentary on art, race, gender and nationalities.
  So any seasoned interpreter immediately understood that ‘Curriculum for Excellence’ was coded language for tat and dumbing-down.
  Unchallenged, mainstream film coded the erotic into the language of the dominant patriarchal order.
  His private perspective on public space, though highly subjective, is not coded with any personal information.
2. 1.2 Assign a code to (something) for purposes of classification or identification.
  she coded the samples and sent them for dissection
  Example sentencesExamples
  Prior to coding, the names of speakers were removed (as were explicit references to the names of the parties themselves).
  A person named Nguyen O'Brien will be coded Vietnamese, not Irish.
  Each source quoted or paraphrased was coded separately, and all of a source's statements in an article were taken into account when applying coding categories.
  For each question, those students that replied affirmatively were coded with the value 1.
  They were also taperecorded, but were not transcribed for analysis since interviewers coded respondents' answers to all questions during the interview.
  Response envelopes were coded with the hospital identification number to protect confidentiality.
  All sections were coded to prevent identification of the probe type or setting used.
  All audit observations should be coded by type and significance, and all audits catalogued by scope and quality.
  The transcribed statements were coded according to general themes that emerged.
  Type and severity of maltreatment were coded using the maltreatment classification system developed by Barnett et al.
  A nurse brought us a large number of test tubes, each one coded with a secret number so that we could not tell which contained fructose and which contained glucose.
  Behaviors and conversation were noted and were coded by using the theoretical framework of enduring and suffering and comforting.
  The samples were coded so that the identity of the individual was not known to the person carrying out the tests.
  Paintings will be coded with serial numbers and will come with a receipt to prove authenticity.
  Documents show that this money appears to have been on deposit in the account, coded A / A40.
  If you code your medicines, be sure these identifications are included on any medicine record you use.
  The athlete watches the official seal both bottles, which are coded with a number rather than a name.
  Similarly, alcohol-related words were coded as 1 and nonalcohol words coded as 0.
  Instruments were coded with an identification number to track and follow up with non respondents.
  Questionnaires were anonymous, coded by a unique number rather than by name.
2Write code for (a computer program)
most developers code C + + like C
no object I no longer actively code in PHP
Example sentencesExamples
- When we code a computer program, we do not rewrite the entire thing every time something fails to work.
- Today while working on a design for a small project I'm doing, I coded a JavaScript image rollover for the first time in at least a year, maybe two.
- When you think of high technology, you probably imagine a software engineer sitting behind a computer, coding some new program.
- New software for the state health care authority is being coded in part in India.
- I didn't find it a difficult exam, but then I've been coding Windows Forms since Visual Basic 4 back in 1997.
3code forBiochemistry
no object Be the genetic code for (an amino acid or protein)
genes that code for human growth hormone
Example sentencesExamples
- Mutations in genes coding for these proteins may be tolerated in an otherwise wild-type cell through the presence of one or more checkpoint pathways.
- Because of their possibly unusual evolution, genes coding for ribosomal proteins were excluded from the analysis.
- This gene codes for a protein which is 513 amino acids in length.
- Several members of this group were found to contain a gene lying downstream of the YR gene that codes for a protein of unknown function.
- Each gene, or a combination of genes, codes for the assembly of amino acids that combine in long chains forming proteins.
1. 3.1 Be the genetic determiner of (a characteristic)
  one pair of homologous chromosomes codes for eye colour
  Example sentencesExamples
  The loss of eye function is the result of a ‘downhill’ mutational change, a corruption or loss of the genetic information coding for eye manufacture.
  The population will have ‘responded’ and become ‘adapted,’ but only because the genetic information coding for waxier cuticles and deeper roots was already present.
  Data from animals suggest that the portion of the genome coding for reproduction-related function may be unusually dynamic.
  It had nothing to do with demonstrating how the genetic information coding for feathers could have arisen in the imagined reptilian ancestors of birds.
  Applying these principles to the horse, the genetic information coding for extra toes is present, but is switched off in most modern horses.

Phrases

bring something up to code

Renovate or update an old building in line with the latest building regulations.
the wiring will be brought up to code
Example sentencesExamples
- We didn't have to bring the bathrooms up to code and compliance because we didn't change the existing structure; instead, we cosmetically cleaned them up.
- He also said it would cost at least $5000 either to remove the addition or to bring it up to code.
- He warns that bringing the building up to code would be ‘extravagantly expensive.’
- If your older deck was built this way, bring it up to code.
- Workers replaced the windows, cleaned the brick and brought the building up to code with ramps and elevators.
- The gallery, which was formerly a storefront, had to undergo a few building improvements to bring it up to code.
- Right now, many wood stove manufacturers don't want to invest the $50,000 extra it would take to bring their product up to code.
- The company then told her that she would have to use its contractors to bring the building up to code.
- You will probably have to bring the home up to code if you undertake a remodeling.
- In 1905, the architect bought the building on Orchard Street and included these improvements when he brought it up to code.
Synonyms
renovate, redecorate, refurbish, recondition, rehabilitate, rebuild, reconstruct, overhaul, make over

Derivatives

coder

noun ˈkəʊdəˈkoʊdər

Traditional programming requires a few coders to commit a lot of time and effort, for which they will reasonably expect to be paid.
Example sentencesExamples
- To hit the broadest range of potential coders, you've got to show them the vast range of what programming can allow you to do.
- This makes the development community nervous, slows contributions from coders, and creates a huge amount of unnecessary noise.
- Fortunately, coders eventually tinkered with the programs enough to create the battle scene the producer wanted.
- An important part of piloting the coding scheme will be testing for consistency between coders and, if time permits, intra-coder reliability.

Origin

Middle English: via Old French from Latin codex, codic- (see codex). The term originally denoted a systematic collection of statutes made by Justinian or another of the later Roman emperors; compare with sense 3 of the noun (mid 18th century), the earliest modern sense.

This was originally a term for a system of laws; the sense ‘secret writing’ developed in the early 19th century. It comes from Latin codex, which developed from a simple meaning of a ‘a block of wood’, to ‘a block split into leaves or tablets’ thus ‘a book’. The related term codicil (Late Middle English) is from Latin codicillus, a diminutive of codex, and thus applies to a ‘small’ part of a legal document.

Rhymes

abode, bestrode, bode, commode, corrode, download, encode, erode, explode, forebode, goad, implode, load, lode, middle-of-the-road, mode, node, ode, offload, outrode, road, rode, sarod, Spode, strode, toad, upload, woad

Definition of code in US English:

code

nounkoʊdkōd

1A system of words, letters, figures, or other symbols substituted for other words, letters, etc., especially for the purposes of secrecy.
the Americans cracked their diplomatic code
sending messages in code
Example sentencesExamples
- She rubbed her temple, trying to figure out the code before her, when she heard a knock at the door.
- She played a key role in the recruitment and briefing of agents, and became an expert writer of letters in code.
- After Evan figures out the code to a mysterious paper that Lisa picks up, they head towards mayhem.
- Some of the neoconservatives in the Pentagon had let it slip to him that they had broken the country's diplomatic codes.
- They were the high-level diplomatic and military codes, the kind of which had never been cracked.
- If he gave us accurate predictions of the future as a reward for figuring out the code, we are to believe he expects us not to use it to our advantage?
- He eventually figures out the code when he absent-mindedly reads the general's doodling on a pad.
- I often figured out codes long before the characters did, which was annoying.
- The code is given in figure 1a, and an example conversion is shown in figure 1b.
- The most well-known example is the breaking of the Japanese diplomatic and military codes before and during WWII.
- She turned and began again to figure the codes, and another plan to get out of this cellar.
- Alongside the body are a series of baffling codes, which Langdon is asked to decipher.
- It was in her language, it was just a different code to the written words.
- The spread of mobile telephones and even the use of secret words or codes show that secrecy is essential to close deals or pass on information.
- These include the letters, written in code, which are said to make clear she was in favour of inflicting pain on her enemies.
- We are still trying to figure out what the codes mean, but we feel we are very close to cracking it.
- He is writing letters in code, there would be no reason for that unless he had something to hide.
- Cryptography is the enciphering and deciphering of messages in secret code or cipher.
- Codes and great historical figures go together like the author of a certain fantastical thriller involving Leonardo da Vinci has shown.
- And if they can break the code on even one message, we're sunk.
Synonyms
cipher, secret language, secret writing, set of symbols, key, hieroglyphics
1. 1.1 A system of signals, such as sounds, light flashes, or flags, used to send messages.
  Morse code
  Example sentencesExamples
  This phonetic code could express every sound in the English language distinctly.
  Aircraft not sending out the code might well be shot down as the enemy.
  At first, the US military had exclusive use of GPS through a secret signal and an encrypted code.
  They will wear new epaulettes from which all references to ‘special constable’ have been removed and replaced by a code identifiable only by other members of the force.
  The dizzying, chattering noises wove a linguistic web that sounded more like code than speech.
  The ring around the fighter's light code turned deep orange, and then dangerously crimson.
  Over time, by developing our own code using hand signals, we became good friends.
  The pen converts the code into a frequency-modulated signal that is input to the microphone socket on a PC, or to any other digital device.
  Sticking my radio back on I prepare to send out a distress code to my comrades in Halsanath.
  In similar fashion, the female glowworm uses the male glowworm light code to signal him.
  It's thought that the transmissions are used to send code to agents in the field, who then decode the message to receive instructions or whatever.
  He tapped his foot on the ground several times, creating some sort of code with the sound.
  The other's light code flashed angrily as its drive signature fluctuated.
2. 1.2 A series of letters, numbers, or symbols assigned to something for the purposes of classification or identification.
  the genetic code
  calls with either code will work in the 201 area
  Example sentencesExamples
  They are commonly represented by a single letter code where the index represents the absorption maximum.
  I picked up the phone, punching in the code to hear our messages.
  The scientist nimbly punched a short combo and a green light acknowledged a correct code.
  The magazine sent us the access code to view its upcoming issue, which I believe will hit the news-stands on Tuesday.
  Currently, companies are the smallest army element to be routinely assigned unit identification codes.
  They never got to the end, though, because they never figured out the last code to open the 7 gates.
  The next second, I punch in the code to check my messages.
  Biometric identifiers are digital codes that cannot be used to reconstitute your image or fingerprint.
  The machine beeped in recognition of the code and the numbers flashed momentarily across the screen.
  With a pre-assigned code, you can send documents to a queue, then access them for printing at any time, such as at hotel and airport business centers.
  The officer turned to face a terminal, inserting an identicard and entering a series of codes.
  An e-voter would go to one site to register and would then be issued with the pass codes to vote in secrecy at another site.
  Responses were recorded, assigned a letter code, and calculated using frequencies and percentages.
  The first two letters represent a regional code, the two numbers represent the year and the last three letters are random.
  Not only had I managed to follow the guard I even figured out what the code was.
  We are seeing boats coming in from all over the world with manufacturer identification codes assigned by their country of origin.
  Games are activated by sending an access code to the company with an Internet connection.
  The man rapidly typed a code into a security system and a loud buzzing sound signaled the door's release.
  If approved, the server sends back an activation code.
  I registered with them today and apparently it takes 7 days for them to send through the activation code.
2Computing
Program instructions.
assembly code
hundreds of lines of code
Example sentencesExamples
- The trick, of course, would be inserting the rogue code into the host program in the first place.
- The code then downloads spyware programs to surfers' PCs, including one that steals credit card numbers and other forms of financial information.
- The answer is 609,000 and this is the number of lines of code in the software for the computers and avionics systems.
- Once infected with the code, the computer sends the same message to other contacts in the instant-messenger list.
- It allows Delphi and C++ programmers to compile code to either operating system.
- They could access the underlying code and tweak the program at will.
- Indeed if ever there was a case for the open sourcing of program code then this is it.
- Early programmers worked in native computer code or machine language.
- Errors from programming code and malformed html can keep the search engine robots from indexing your web pages.
- This is the process that analyzes an HTML document in comparison to standard HTML rules, identifying errors and non-standard codes.
- Wait a minute, I'm a software engineer… why not look at their code and try to figure out some of their major weaknesses.
- Nobody studies the old code, and nobody figures out where it is inefficient and why, and as a consequence programs are often buggy and less stable.
- This time it was traced to a college student in Romania who had also left obvious clues to his identity in the code.
- If the malware inside this ZIP file is opened, the Trojan may attempt to download more malicious code from a pre-programmed list of websites.
- He adds that progress on debugging code is a tad slow, pointing to threads you can find on this bulletin board.
- We had to program in assembly code and call a play routine every vertical blank.
- Using this drag-and-drop methodology, users can create program code with minimal user input or understanding.
- He encouraged people to look at his program and modify it for their own needs and to send him their code to add to the system.
- Hackers gain secret control of the computers by sending e-mail viruses and worms or by planting software code on web sites.
- Millions of lines of software code are involved, and we haven't even gotten to matters like billing and maintenance.
3A systematic collection of laws or regulations.
the criminal code
Example sentencesExamples
- It would be perfectly possible for a criminal code to provide separate crimes of negligence, with lower maximum sentences, at appropriate points in the hierarchy of offences.
- Civil law and commercial law derive from the French, while the penal code is influenced by the British model.
- Under the doctrine of breach of statutory duty some regulatory codes may give rise to civil liability when breached.
- Dissidence, even active, is not war and the normal criminal and civil codes of law still apply.
- In Warwick, only 75 miles away, these activities are all deemed acceptable farming uses under the zoning code.
- When he put up a tricolour atop his factory, the police slapped a case on him for violating the flag code.
- The penal code does not criminalize such conduct, and would be clearly unconstitutional if it did.
- In order to conform to strict fire codes the employer shall have the right to conduct safety inspections and fire drills at the employees home at any time.
- The difficult concept of ‘adverse possession’ of private property appears in both codes in a nearly identical manner.
- In many states, there is a criminal code which tabulates criminal offences.
- Influenced by popular discontent with much of the judiciary, Napoleon attempted to write a statutory code that was essentially judge-proof.
- He submitted that implementation of planning permissions was not dealt with by the statutory code.
- With the growing power of the state, statutory tenure codes were drawn up by centralized governments, reflecting the values and interests of the state.
- The Muslim minority views the code as an indirect abrogation of their cultural freedom.
- This is itself a judicial interpolation into the statutory code.
- Under the old code, mothers were assigned priority in matters of child custody, and fathers were granted visiting rights.
- With compliance to building codes a given, the real question on many projects is whether it is worthwhile to go beyond code requirements.
- Despite the stark words of the various codes regulating ministerial and MSP conduct, the MSPs of various parties will let the First Minister off.
- You look and see what principles have been established in prior cases rather than just referring to a piece of legislation or a code.
- The constitution, the penal code, and international and human rights conventions are the only guide to what is acceptable and what is not.
Synonyms
law, laws, body of law, rules, regulations, constitution, system, charter, canon, jurisprudence
1. 3.1 A set of conventions governing behavior or activity in a particular sphere.
  a dress code
  Example sentencesExamples
  Utmost secrecy was the dictator's code of practice and few witnesses survived to testify about his daily life.
  Instead, the real issue is getting golf's expanding legions of fans to adhere to a time-honored code of behavior.
  The nations that survive and prosper and become world powers are the ones that adhere to strict moral codes.
  I applaud both the concept of a code of ethics by which industry members are bound, and the revamping of the disciplinary process.
  They believe these activities may violate their code of conduct and bring shame upon them.
  Why have ethical codes not figured prominently in discussions of the peer review process?
  Edwards said the code of conduct was sent to parents as a matter of course and was unrelated to Wednesday's match.
  Sir, my research indicates that there is no code of dress prescribed or agreed upon for attorneys appearing in the magistrates court.
  The code dictated concepts such as loyalty, honor and virtue.
  I know, the old moral codes weren't painless either.
  When people are designing their own religions and their own moral codes, is it any shock that they're designing their own politics, too?
  There is no written code of conduct for these venues, although each one will have a slightly different unwritten code of behavior.
  Religion has as much to do with the furnishing of moral and ethical codes as it does with non-natural explanations of the origins of the universe.
  There's no formal code of behavior, at least none I've been able to fathom.
  The suggestion seems to be that they offer him a sense of family and belonging, and that he identifies with their dubious code of loyalty.
  For one thing, it means that we can have different codes of morality, one code for the public self, the other for the private self.
  We need each other, but women have always been the ones to set the moral codes, to keep men and their children on the right track.
  Use of these drugs is routinely equated with socially degraded status and participation in activities indicative of the code of the streets.
  But these are not the sort of thing that a good company man does; a remarkably effective code bans such behavior.
  A 13-point code of conduct governing all buskers working in Oxford is expected to come into force next month.
  A sly and sophisticated writer, he could always get around the code of silence with indirection.
  There is no supreme code of behavior that dictates who I have to be nice to.
  This is so profoundly a part of the military code of behavior that it cannot be over-emphasized.
  The prejudging judgment might be as broad as the spoken English language, or the dictionary, or some other code or convention.
  The authorities obviously want to continue to maintain the code of secrecy of all the corruption perpetrated.
  In fact, among surfers there's a fairly rigid code of beach behavior, which includes a strict pecking order.
  Chandelor wanted his so-called knights to have honor, a moral code of ethics, things with which tradition would expect.
  The actors of today are simply too pretty and too vacant to depict the men and women of sterner days and stricter moral codes.
  The ombudsman criticised the school for breaking strict admissions rules set out in the code of practice on comprehensive admissions.
  I was one of two writers invited by the commission on culture and sport to help an ad hoc committee put into words a new code of practice.
  While a code of secrecy applies, there also exists a pool of top homeowners willing to sell their properties if the price is right, even though they are not on the market.
  Does this country possess the courage to affirm a common code of principles, of manners?
  The Government has laid out its ideas for a proposed voluntary code to govern how communication firms handle calls, e-mails and web access.
  In almost every case the wrongdoing is by a few since most people operate according to high moral codes whatever the degree of disorganization.
  They have their own code of morals and honor, just like anyone else.
  The rigid social, moral and behavioural codes imposed by the group included severe restrictions on women's freedom of movement, expression and association.
  To be worthy of that love, he adopted a strict code of moral conduct.
  The gentlemen's code also served to limit aggressive behavior after the battle.
  While today we may disagree with some of the wording or even the concepts in this early code of ethics, few would disagree with its intent or its essence.
  There are already many accepted codes of practice for magick but they weren't formulated with modern modes of communication in mind.
  Synonyms
  set of principles, set of standards, set of customs
2. 3.2 A set of rules and standards adhered to by a society, class, or individual.
  a stern code of honor

verbkoʊdkōd

[with object]

1Convert (the words of a message) into a particular code in order to convey a secret meaning.
only Mitch knew how to read the message—even the name was coded
Example sentencesExamples
- It is an awareness of how language codes the way we view the world, and how membership in various communities influences our understanding of the world.
- Thus the hats contain a message coded in the manner in which they are worn.
- Not only may they be purposely babbling and coding their conversations to confuse the eavesdroppers, but there are also the complexities of language itself.
- Given that the messages are claimed to be coded, it would seem that network editing is unlikely to pick them out.
- Three-fourths of the message has already been deciphered, but the remaining fourth has apparently been coded in an entirely different way.
- The package enables audio traffic - such as a phone conversation - to be coded as data, sent down an internet connection and then decoded at the other end.
- There were little clues, like the fact that messages often started with a weather report, or the fact that Enigma never ever coded a given letter as itself.
- Places carry meanings and are coded with narrative significances, and these built-in values are useful to writers.
- But markets only respond to messages coded in the language of prices.
- Sometimes the information she communicates is coded or covert - where exactly the missing animal may be found, for instance.
1. 1.1 Express the meaning of (a statement or communication) in an indirect or euphemistic way.
  they code their language when talking to the general public
  Example sentencesExamples
  This minority group has long been coded in U.S. popular culture as a threat, a people who keep their motives and means well hidden.
  So any seasoned interpreter immediately understood that ‘Curriculum for Excellence’ was coded language for tat and dumbing-down.
  Unchallenged, mainstream film coded the erotic into the language of the dominant patriarchal order.
  On the back of this page are the directions to it, coded as a precaution.
  This visual narrative appears to have incorporated other animal stories as well as interjected some coded political statements.
  It is also one of the reasons why music is coded, and the political purposes of the musicians do not necessarily coincide with the political sentiments expressed in the lyrics.
  Petroleum wealth seems often to be coded as undeserved and also as automatically making people rich.
  There were hints about social security reform and coded signals about moving to a flat tax, but this speech, like this convention, was a war speech.
  His private perspective on public space, though highly subjective, is not coded with any personal information.
  The Singaporean filmmaker argues that he's only amplifying what's already coded into the fable.
  But then, as he says of himself, he must be coded an optimist.
  He has removed any potential threat of even coded criticism from the foreign secretary by removing him from his post.
  How is a reader supposed to understand what an article is actually about if everything is all coded and coy?
  Enigmatic, coded, complicated, the film is a distinctive commentary on art, race, gender and nationalities.
  In a curious move, bombing the country is coded as a greater humanitarian good than feeding or educating people.
2. 1.2 Assign a code to (something) for purposes of classification, analysis, or identification.
  she coded the samples and sent them down for dissection
  Example sentencesExamples
  The athlete watches the official seal both bottles, which are coded with a number rather than a name.
  Questionnaires were anonymous, coded by a unique number rather than by name.
  For each question, those students that replied affirmatively were coded with the value 1.
  All audit observations should be coded by type and significance, and all audits catalogued by scope and quality.
  Type and severity of maltreatment were coded using the maltreatment classification system developed by Barnett et al.
  Behaviors and conversation were noted and were coded by using the theoretical framework of enduring and suffering and comforting.
  Paintings will be coded with serial numbers and will come with a receipt to prove authenticity.
  A nurse brought us a large number of test tubes, each one coded with a secret number so that we could not tell which contained fructose and which contained glucose.
  Documents show that this money appears to have been on deposit in the account, coded A / A40.
  Similarly, alcohol-related words were coded as 1 and nonalcohol words coded as 0.
  Each source quoted or paraphrased was coded separately, and all of a source's statements in an article were taken into account when applying coding categories.
  All sections were coded to prevent identification of the probe type or setting used.
  Response envelopes were coded with the hospital identification number to protect confidentiality.
  Instruments were coded with an identification number to track and follow up with non respondents.
  Prior to coding, the names of speakers were removed (as were explicit references to the names of the parties themselves).
  They were also taperecorded, but were not transcribed for analysis since interviewers coded respondents' answers to all questions during the interview.
  If you code your medicines, be sure these identifications are included on any medicine record you use.
  The samples were coded so that the identity of the individual was not known to the person carrying out the tests.
  A person named Nguyen O'Brien will be coded Vietnamese, not Irish.
  The transcribed statements were coded according to general themes that emerged.
2Write code for (a computer program)
most developers code C + + like C
no object I no longer actively code in PHP
Example sentencesExamples
- I didn't find it a difficult exam, but then I've been coding Windows Forms since Visual Basic 4 back in 1997.
- New software for the state health care authority is being coded in part in India.
- When we code a computer program, we do not rewrite the entire thing every time something fails to work.
- When you think of high technology, you probably imagine a software engineer sitting behind a computer, coding some new program.
- Today while working on a design for a small project I'm doing, I coded a JavaScript image rollover for the first time in at least a year, maybe two.
3code forBiochemistry
no object Specify the genetic sequence for (an amino acid or protein)
genes that code for human growth hormone
Example sentencesExamples
- Several members of this group were found to contain a gene lying downstream of the YR gene that codes for a protein of unknown function.
- Mutations in genes coding for these proteins may be tolerated in an otherwise wild-type cell through the presence of one or more checkpoint pathways.
- This gene codes for a protein which is 513 amino acids in length.
- Because of their possibly unusual evolution, genes coding for ribosomal proteins were excluded from the analysis.
- Each gene, or a combination of genes, codes for the assembly of amino acids that combine in long chains forming proteins.
1. 3.1 Be the genetic determiner of (a characteristic)
  one pair of homologous chromosomes that codes for eye color
  Example sentencesExamples
  The loss of eye function is the result of a ‘downhill’ mutational change, a corruption or loss of the genetic information coding for eye manufacture.
  It had nothing to do with demonstrating how the genetic information coding for feathers could have arisen in the imagined reptilian ancestors of birds.
  Data from animals suggest that the portion of the genome coding for reproduction-related function may be unusually dynamic.
  The population will have ‘responded’ and become ‘adapted,’ but only because the genetic information coding for waxier cuticles and deeper roots was already present.
  Applying these principles to the horse, the genetic information coding for extra toes is present, but is switched off in most modern horses.

Phrases

bring something up to code

Renovate an old building or update its features in line with the latest building regulations.
Example sentencesExamples
- You will probably have to bring the home up to code if you undertake a remodeling.
- Workers replaced the windows, cleaned the brick and brought the building up to code with ramps and elevators.
- He warns that bringing the building up to code would be ‘extravagantly expensive.’
- We didn't have to bring the bathrooms up to code and compliance because we didn't change the existing structure; instead, we cosmetically cleaned them up.
- If your older deck was built this way, bring it up to code.
- In 1905, the architect bought the building on Orchard Street and included these improvements when he brought it up to code.
- The gallery, which was formerly a storefront, had to undergo a few building improvements to bring it up to code.
- The company then told her that she would have to use its contractors to bring the building up to code.
- Right now, many wood stove manufacturers don't want to invest the $50,000 extra it would take to bring their product up to code.
- He also said it would cost at least $5000 either to remove the addition or to bring it up to code.
Synonyms
renovate, redecorate, refurbish, recondition, rehabilitate, rebuild, reconstruct, overhaul, make over

Origin

Middle English: via Old French from Latin codex, codic- (see codex). The term originally denoted a systematic collection of statutes made by Justinian or another of the later Roman emperors; compare with code (sense 3 of the noun) (mid 18th century), the earliest modern sense.

单词	code
释义	Definition of code in English: code noun kəʊdkoʊd 1A system of words, letters, figures, or symbols used to represent others, especially for the purposes of secrecy. the Americans cracked their diplomatic code mass noun messages written in code Example sentencesExamples After Evan figures out the code to a mysterious paper that Lisa picks up, they head towards mayhem. He is writing letters in code, there would be no reason for that unless he had something to hide. Some of the neoconservatives in the Pentagon had let it slip to him that they had broken the country's diplomatic codes. The code is given in figure 1a, and an example conversion is shown in figure 1b. It was in her language, it was just a different code to the written words. He eventually figures out the code when he absent-mindedly reads the general's doodling on a pad. And if they can break the code on even one message, we're sunk. Alongside the body are a series of baffling codes, which Langdon is asked to decipher. These include the letters, written in code, which are said to make clear she was in favour of inflicting pain on her enemies. She turned and began again to figure the codes, and another plan to get out of this cellar. Cryptography is the enciphering and deciphering of messages in secret code or cipher. If he gave us accurate predictions of the future as a reward for figuring out the code, we are to believe he expects us not to use it to our advantage? We are still trying to figure out what the codes mean, but we feel we are very close to cracking it. She played a key role in the recruitment and briefing of agents, and became an expert writer of letters in code. The most well-known example is the breaking of the Japanese diplomatic and military codes before and during WWII. Codes and great historical figures go together like the author of a certain fantastical thriller involving Leonardo da Vinci has shown. I often figured out codes long before the characters did, which was annoying. The spread of mobile telephones and even the use of secret words or codes show that secrecy is essential to close deals or pass on information. She rubbed her temple, trying to figure out the code before her, when she heard a knock at the door. They were the high-level diplomatic and military codes, the kind of which had never been cracked. Synonyms cipher, secret language, secret writing, set of symbols, key, hieroglyphics coded message, cryptogram rare cryptograph 1.1 A phrase or concept used to represent another in an indirect way. ‘We'll catch up soon’ is usually a code for ‘I'm not that into you’ Example sentencesExamples PC is essentially an etiquette, a series of codes by which we are supposed to live our lives. I recognise - more than the words, the codes and silences - the force of all the things unsaid. Now, I wondered if he had been sending me code, offering me a front-row seat to some action. Synonyms form of words, set expression, phrase, saying, aphorism 1.2 A series of letters, numbers, or symbols assigned to something for the purposes of classification or identification. each box had a label with the code SC 90 Example sentencesExamples The scientist nimbly punched a short combo and a green light acknowledged a correct code. Games are activated by sending an access code to the company with an Internet connection. I picked up the phone, punching in the code to hear our messages. Currently, companies are the smallest army element to be routinely assigned unit identification codes. I registered with them today and apparently it takes 7 days for them to send through the activation code. The first two letters represent a regional code, the two numbers represent the year and the last three letters are random. We are seeing boats coming in from all over the world with manufacturer identification codes assigned by their country of origin. Biometric identifiers are digital codes that cannot be used to reconstitute your image or fingerprint. The officer turned to face a terminal, inserting an identicard and entering a series of codes. If approved, the server sends back an activation code. With a pre-assigned code, you can send documents to a queue, then access them for printing at any time, such as at hotel and airport business centers. The magazine sent us the access code to view its upcoming issue, which I believe will hit the news-stands on Tuesday. Responses were recorded, assigned a letter code, and calculated using frequencies and percentages. The next second, I punch in the code to check my messages. The machine beeped in recognition of the code and the numbers flashed momentarily across the screen. Not only had I managed to follow the guard I even figured out what the code was. They never got to the end, though, because they never figured out the last code to open the 7 gates. They are commonly represented by a single letter code where the index represents the absorption maximum. An e-voter would go to one site to register and would then be issued with the pass codes to vote in secrecy at another site. The man rapidly typed a code into a security system and a loud buzzing sound signaled the door's release. 1.3 I was given the number, but not the code for Guildford short for dialling code 2Computing mass noun Program instructions. assembly code Example sentencesExamples Millions of lines of software code are involved, and we haven't even gotten to matters like billing and maintenance. We had to program in assembly code and call a play routine every vertical blank. This time it was traced to a college student in Romania who had also left obvious clues to his identity in the code. Once infected with the code, the computer sends the same message to other contacts in the instant-messenger list. Nobody studies the old code, and nobody figures out where it is inefficient and why, and as a consequence programs are often buggy and less stable. Early programmers worked in native computer code or machine language. He adds that progress on debugging code is a tad slow, pointing to threads you can find on this bulletin board. The code then downloads spyware programs to surfers' PCs, including one that steals credit card numbers and other forms of financial information. They could access the underlying code and tweak the program at will. Hackers gain secret control of the computers by sending e-mail viruses and worms or by planting software code on web sites. It allows Delphi and C++ programmers to compile code to either operating system. The answer is 609,000 and this is the number of lines of code in the software for the computers and avionics systems. Wait a minute, I'm a software engineer… why not look at their code and try to figure out some of their major weaknesses. He encouraged people to look at his program and modify it for their own needs and to send him their code to add to the system. Using this drag-and-drop methodology, users can create program code with minimal user input or understanding. The trick, of course, would be inserting the rogue code into the host program in the first place. This is the process that analyzes an HTML document in comparison to standard HTML rules, identifying errors and non-standard codes. If the malware inside this ZIP file is opened, the Trojan may attempt to download more malicious code from a pre-programmed list of websites. Indeed if ever there was a case for the open sourcing of program code then this is it. Errors from programming code and malformed html can keep the search engine robots from indexing your web pages. 3A systematic collection of laws or statutes. a revision of the penal code Example sentencesExamples The penal code does not criminalize such conduct, and would be clearly unconstitutional if it did. The constitution, the penal code, and international and human rights conventions are the only guide to what is acceptable and what is not. When he put up a tricolour atop his factory, the police slapped a case on him for violating the flag code. This is itself a judicial interpolation into the statutory code. Under the doctrine of breach of statutory duty some regulatory codes may give rise to civil liability when breached. With the growing power of the state, statutory tenure codes were drawn up by centralized governments, reflecting the values and interests of the state. In many states, there is a criminal code which tabulates criminal offences. The difficult concept of ‘adverse possession’ of private property appears in both codes in a nearly identical manner. The Muslim minority views the code as an indirect abrogation of their cultural freedom. With compliance to building codes a given, the real question on many projects is whether it is worthwhile to go beyond code requirements. You look and see what principles have been established in prior cases rather than just referring to a piece of legislation or a code. Civil law and commercial law derive from the French, while the penal code is influenced by the British model. Despite the stark words of the various codes regulating ministerial and MSP conduct, the MSPs of various parties will let the First Minister off. It would be perfectly possible for a criminal code to provide separate crimes of negligence, with lower maximum sentences, at appropriate points in the hierarchy of offences. He submitted that implementation of planning permissions was not dealt with by the statutory code. Under the old code, mothers were assigned priority in matters of child custody, and fathers were granted visiting rights. Dissidence, even active, is not war and the normal criminal and civil codes of law still apply. Influenced by popular discontent with much of the judiciary, Napoleon attempted to write a statutory code that was essentially judge-proof. In order to conform to strict fire codes the employer shall have the right to conduct safety inspections and fire drills at the employees home at any time. In Warwick, only 75 miles away, these activities are all deemed acceptable farming uses under the zoning code. Synonyms law, laws, body of law, rules, regulations, constitution, system, charter, canon, jurisprudence 3.1 A set of conventions or moral principles governing behaviour in a particular sphere. a strict dress code a stern code of honour Example sentencesExamples Does this country possess the courage to affirm a common code of principles, of manners? There is no supreme code of behavior that dictates who I have to be nice to. There's no formal code of behavior, at least none I've been able to fathom. I know, the old moral codes weren't painless either. To be worthy of that love, he adopted a strict code of moral conduct. While a code of secrecy applies, there also exists a pool of top homeowners willing to sell their properties if the price is right, even though they are not on the market. In almost every case the wrongdoing is by a few since most people operate according to high moral codes whatever the degree of disorganization. The suggestion seems to be that they offer him a sense of family and belonging, and that he identifies with their dubious code of loyalty. Chandelor wanted his so-called knights to have honor, a moral code of ethics, things with which tradition would expect. For one thing, it means that we can have different codes of morality, one code for the public self, the other for the private self. This is so profoundly a part of the military code of behavior that it cannot be over-emphasized. There are already many accepted codes of practice for magick but they weren't formulated with modern modes of communication in mind. Edwards said the code of conduct was sent to parents as a matter of course and was unrelated to Wednesday's match. The code dictated concepts such as loyalty, honor and virtue. The authorities obviously want to continue to maintain the code of secrecy of all the corruption perpetrated. There is no written code of conduct for these venues, although each one will have a slightly different unwritten code of behavior. I was one of two writers invited by the commission on culture and sport to help an ad hoc committee put into words a new code of practice. When people are designing their own religions and their own moral codes, is it any shock that they're designing their own politics, too? The gentlemen's code also served to limit aggressive behavior after the battle. They believe these activities may violate their code of conduct and bring shame upon them. Use of these drugs is routinely equated with socially degraded status and participation in activities indicative of the code of the streets. But these are not the sort of thing that a good company man does; a remarkably effective code bans such behavior. Instead, the real issue is getting golf's expanding legions of fans to adhere to a time-honored code of behavior. Utmost secrecy was the dictator's code of practice and few witnesses survived to testify about his daily life. While today we may disagree with some of the wording or even the concepts in this early code of ethics, few would disagree with its intent or its essence. In fact, among surfers there's a fairly rigid code of beach behavior, which includes a strict pecking order. Sir, my research indicates that there is no code of dress prescribed or agreed upon for attorneys appearing in the magistrates court. A sly and sophisticated writer, he could always get around the code of silence with indirection. The Government has laid out its ideas for a proposed voluntary code to govern how communication firms handle calls, e-mails and web access. They have their own code of morals and honor, just like anyone else. We need each other, but women have always been the ones to set the moral codes, to keep men and their children on the right track. The rigid social, moral and behavioural codes imposed by the group included severe restrictions on women's freedom of movement, expression and association. The ombudsman criticised the school for breaking strict admissions rules set out in the code of practice on comprehensive admissions. The prejudging judgment might be as broad as the spoken English language, or the dictionary, or some other code or convention. I applaud both the concept of a code of ethics by which industry members are bound, and the revamping of the disciplinary process. A 13-point code of conduct governing all buskers working in Oxford is expected to come into force next month. Why have ethical codes not figured prominently in discussions of the peer review process? Religion has as much to do with the furnishing of moral and ethical codes as it does with non-natural explanations of the origins of the universe. The nations that survive and prosper and become world powers are the ones that adhere to strict moral codes. The actors of today are simply too pretty and too vacant to depict the men and women of sterner days and stricter moral codes. Synonyms set of principles, set of standards, set of customs manners, ethics, morals morality, convention, accepted behaviour, etiquette, protocol verb kəʊdkoʊd [with object] 1Convert (the words of a message) into a code so as to convey a secret meaning. only Mitch knew how to read the message—even the name was coded Example sentencesExamples The package enables audio traffic - such as a phone conversation - to be coded as data, sent down an internet connection and then decoded at the other end. Given that the messages are claimed to be coded, it would seem that network editing is unlikely to pick them out. Three-fourths of the message has already been deciphered, but the remaining fourth has apparently been coded in an entirely different way. But markets only respond to messages coded in the language of prices. Not only may they be purposely babbling and coding their conversations to confuse the eavesdroppers, but there are also the complexities of language itself. It is an awareness of how language codes the way we view the world, and how membership in various communities influences our understanding of the world. Places carry meanings and are coded with narrative significances, and these built-in values are useful to writers. Thus the hats contain a message coded in the manner in which they are worn. Sometimes the information she communicates is coded or covert - where exactly the missing animal may be found, for instance. There were little clues, like the fact that messages often started with a weather report, or the fact that Enigma never ever coded a given letter as itself. 1.1 Express the meaning of (a statement) in an indirect way. they code their language when talking to the general public Example sentencesExamples There were hints about social security reform and coded signals about moving to a flat tax, but this speech, like this convention, was a war speech. This minority group has long been coded in U.S. popular culture as a threat, a people who keep their motives and means well hidden. In a curious move, bombing the country is coded as a greater humanitarian good than feeding or educating people. This visual narrative appears to have incorporated other animal stories as well as interjected some coded political statements. But then, as he says of himself, he must be coded an optimist. How is a reader supposed to understand what an article is actually about if everything is all coded and coy? The Singaporean filmmaker argues that he's only amplifying what's already coded into the fable. Petroleum wealth seems often to be coded as undeserved and also as automatically making people rich. It is also one of the reasons why music is coded, and the political purposes of the musicians do not necessarily coincide with the political sentiments expressed in the lyrics. He has removed any potential threat of even coded criticism from the foreign secretary by removing him from his post. On the back of this page are the directions to it, coded as a precaution. Enigmatic, coded, complicated, the film is a distinctive commentary on art, race, gender and nationalities. So any seasoned interpreter immediately understood that ‘Curriculum for Excellence’ was coded language for tat and dumbing-down. Unchallenged, mainstream film coded the erotic into the language of the dominant patriarchal order. His private perspective on public space, though highly subjective, is not coded with any personal information. 1.2 Assign a code to (something) for purposes of classification or identification. she coded the samples and sent them for dissection Example sentencesExamples Prior to coding, the names of speakers were removed (as were explicit references to the names of the parties themselves). A person named Nguyen O'Brien will be coded Vietnamese, not Irish. Each source quoted or paraphrased was coded separately, and all of a source's statements in an article were taken into account when applying coding categories. For each question, those students that replied affirmatively were coded with the value 1. They were also taperecorded, but were not transcribed for analysis since interviewers coded respondents' answers to all questions during the interview. Response envelopes were coded with the hospital identification number to protect confidentiality. All sections were coded to prevent identification of the probe type or setting used. All audit observations should be coded by type and significance, and all audits catalogued by scope and quality. The transcribed statements were coded according to general themes that emerged. Type and severity of maltreatment were coded using the maltreatment classification system developed by Barnett et al. A nurse brought us a large number of test tubes, each one coded with a secret number so that we could not tell which contained fructose and which contained glucose. Behaviors and conversation were noted and were coded by using the theoretical framework of enduring and suffering and comforting. The samples were coded so that the identity of the individual was not known to the person carrying out the tests. Paintings will be coded with serial numbers and will come with a receipt to prove authenticity. Documents show that this money appears to have been on deposit in the account, coded A / A40. If you code your medicines, be sure these identifications are included on any medicine record you use. The athlete watches the official seal both bottles, which are coded with a number rather than a name. Similarly, alcohol-related words were coded as 1 and nonalcohol words coded as 0. Instruments were coded with an identification number to track and follow up with non respondents. Questionnaires were anonymous, coded by a unique number rather than by name. 2Write code for (a computer program) most developers code C + + like C no object I no longer actively code in PHP Example sentencesExamples When we code a computer program, we do not rewrite the entire thing every time something fails to work. Today while working on a design for a small project I'm doing, I coded a JavaScript image rollover for the first time in at least a year, maybe two. When you think of high technology, you probably imagine a software engineer sitting behind a computer, coding some new program. New software for the state health care authority is being coded in part in India. I didn't find it a difficult exam, but then I've been coding Windows Forms since Visual Basic 4 back in 1997. 3code forBiochemistry no object Be the genetic code for (an amino acid or protein) genes that code for human growth hormone Example sentencesExamples Mutations in genes coding for these proteins may be tolerated in an otherwise wild-type cell through the presence of one or more checkpoint pathways. Because of their possibly unusual evolution, genes coding for ribosomal proteins were excluded from the analysis. This gene codes for a protein which is 513 amino acids in length. Several members of this group were found to contain a gene lying downstream of the YR gene that codes for a protein of unknown function. Each gene, or a combination of genes, codes for the assembly of amino acids that combine in long chains forming proteins. 3.1 Be the genetic determiner of (a characteristic) one pair of homologous chromosomes codes for eye colour Example sentencesExamples The loss of eye function is the result of a ‘downhill’ mutational change, a corruption or loss of the genetic information coding for eye manufacture. The population will have ‘responded’ and become ‘adapted,’ but only because the genetic information coding for waxier cuticles and deeper roots was already present. Data from animals suggest that the portion of the genome coding for reproduction-related function may be unusually dynamic. It had nothing to do with demonstrating how the genetic information coding for feathers could have arisen in the imagined reptilian ancestors of birds. Applying these principles to the horse, the genetic information coding for extra toes is present, but is switched off in most modern horses. Phrases bring something up to code Renovate or update an old building in line with the latest building regulations. the wiring will be brought up to code Example sentencesExamples We didn't have to bring the bathrooms up to code and compliance because we didn't change the existing structure; instead, we cosmetically cleaned them up. He also said it would cost at least $5000 either to remove the addition or to bring it up to code. He warns that bringing the building up to code would be ‘extravagantly expensive.’ If your older deck was built this way, bring it up to code. Workers replaced the windows, cleaned the brick and brought the building up to code with ramps and elevators. The gallery, which was formerly a storefront, had to undergo a few building improvements to bring it up to code. Right now, many wood stove manufacturers don't want to invest the $50,000 extra it would take to bring their product up to code. The company then told her that she would have to use its contractors to bring the building up to code. You will probably have to bring the home up to code if you undertake a remodeling. In 1905, the architect bought the building on Orchard Street and included these improvements when he brought it up to code. Synonyms renovate, redecorate, refurbish, recondition, rehabilitate, rebuild, reconstruct, overhaul, make over Derivatives coder noun ˈkəʊdəˈkoʊdər Traditional programming requires a few coders to commit a lot of time and effort, for which they will reasonably expect to be paid. Example sentencesExamples To hit the broadest range of potential coders, you've got to show them the vast range of what programming can allow you to do. This makes the development community nervous, slows contributions from coders, and creates a huge amount of unnecessary noise. Fortunately, coders eventually tinkered with the programs enough to create the battle scene the producer wanted. An important part of piloting the coding scheme will be testing for consistency between coders and, if time permits, intra-coder reliability. Origin Middle English: via Old French from Latin codex, codic- (see codex). The term originally denoted a systematic collection of statutes made by Justinian or another of the later Roman emperors; compare with sense 3 of the noun (mid 18th century), the earliest modern sense. This was originally a term for a system of laws; the sense ‘secret writing’ developed in the early 19th century. It comes from Latin codex, which developed from a simple meaning of a ‘a block of wood’, to ‘a block split into leaves or tablets’ thus ‘a book’. The related term codicil (Late Middle English) is from Latin codicillus, a diminutive of codex, and thus applies to a ‘small’ part of a legal document. Rhymes abode, bestrode, bode, commode, corrode, download, encode, erode, explode, forebode, goad, implode, load, lode, middle-of-the-road, mode, node, ode, offload, outrode, road, rode, sarod, Spode, strode, toad, upload, woad noun.1 phr. Definition of code in US English: code nounkoʊdkōd 1A system of words, letters, figures, or other symbols substituted for other words, letters, etc., especially for the purposes of secrecy. the Americans cracked their diplomatic code sending messages in code Example sentencesExamples She rubbed her temple, trying to figure out the code before her, when she heard a knock at the door. She played a key role in the recruitment and briefing of agents, and became an expert writer of letters in code. After Evan figures out the code to a mysterious paper that Lisa picks up, they head towards mayhem. Some of the neoconservatives in the Pentagon had let it slip to him that they had broken the country's diplomatic codes. They were the high-level diplomatic and military codes, the kind of which had never been cracked. If he gave us accurate predictions of the future as a reward for figuring out the code, we are to believe he expects us not to use it to our advantage? He eventually figures out the code when he absent-mindedly reads the general's doodling on a pad. I often figured out codes long before the characters did, which was annoying. The code is given in figure 1a, and an example conversion is shown in figure 1b. The most well-known example is the breaking of the Japanese diplomatic and military codes before and during WWII. She turned and began again to figure the codes, and another plan to get out of this cellar. Alongside the body are a series of baffling codes, which Langdon is asked to decipher. It was in her language, it was just a different code to the written words. The spread of mobile telephones and even the use of secret words or codes show that secrecy is essential to close deals or pass on information. These include the letters, written in code, which are said to make clear she was in favour of inflicting pain on her enemies. We are still trying to figure out what the codes mean, but we feel we are very close to cracking it. He is writing letters in code, there would be no reason for that unless he had something to hide. Cryptography is the enciphering and deciphering of messages in secret code or cipher. Codes and great historical figures go together like the author of a certain fantastical thriller involving Leonardo da Vinci has shown. And if they can break the code on even one message, we're sunk. Synonyms cipher, secret language, secret writing, set of symbols, key, hieroglyphics 1.1 A system of signals, such as sounds, light flashes, or flags, used to send messages. Morse code Example sentencesExamples This phonetic code could express every sound in the English language distinctly. Aircraft not sending out the code might well be shot down as the enemy. At first, the US military had exclusive use of GPS through a secret signal and an encrypted code. They will wear new epaulettes from which all references to ‘special constable’ have been removed and replaced by a code identifiable only by other members of the force. The dizzying, chattering noises wove a linguistic web that sounded more like code than speech. The ring around the fighter's light code turned deep orange, and then dangerously crimson. Over time, by developing our own code using hand signals, we became good friends. The pen converts the code into a frequency-modulated signal that is input to the microphone socket on a PC, or to any other digital device. Sticking my radio back on I prepare to send out a distress code to my comrades in Halsanath. In similar fashion, the female glowworm uses the male glowworm light code to signal him. It's thought that the transmissions are used to send code to agents in the field, who then decode the message to receive instructions or whatever. He tapped his foot on the ground several times, creating some sort of code with the sound. The other's light code flashed angrily as its drive signature fluctuated. 1.2 A series of letters, numbers, or symbols assigned to something for the purposes of classification or identification. the genetic code calls with either code will work in the 201 area Example sentencesExamples They are commonly represented by a single letter code where the index represents the absorption maximum. I picked up the phone, punching in the code to hear our messages. The scientist nimbly punched a short combo and a green light acknowledged a correct code. The magazine sent us the access code to view its upcoming issue, which I believe will hit the news-stands on Tuesday. Currently, companies are the smallest army element to be routinely assigned unit identification codes. They never got to the end, though, because they never figured out the last code to open the 7 gates. The next second, I punch in the code to check my messages. Biometric identifiers are digital codes that cannot be used to reconstitute your image or fingerprint. The machine beeped in recognition of the code and the numbers flashed momentarily across the screen. With a pre-assigned code, you can send documents to a queue, then access them for printing at any time, such as at hotel and airport business centers. The officer turned to face a terminal, inserting an identicard and entering a series of codes. An e-voter would go to one site to register and would then be issued with the pass codes to vote in secrecy at another site. Responses were recorded, assigned a letter code, and calculated using frequencies and percentages. The first two letters represent a regional code, the two numbers represent the year and the last three letters are random. Not only had I managed to follow the guard I even figured out what the code was. We are seeing boats coming in from all over the world with manufacturer identification codes assigned by their country of origin. Games are activated by sending an access code to the company with an Internet connection. The man rapidly typed a code into a security system and a loud buzzing sound signaled the door's release. If approved, the server sends back an activation code. I registered with them today and apparently it takes 7 days for them to send through the activation code. 2Computing Program instructions. assembly code hundreds of lines of code Example sentencesExamples The trick, of course, would be inserting the rogue code into the host program in the first place. The code then downloads spyware programs to surfers' PCs, including one that steals credit card numbers and other forms of financial information. The answer is 609,000 and this is the number of lines of code in the software for the computers and avionics systems. Once infected with the code, the computer sends the same message to other contacts in the instant-messenger list. It allows Delphi and C++ programmers to compile code to either operating system. They could access the underlying code and tweak the program at will. Indeed if ever there was a case for the open sourcing of program code then this is it. Early programmers worked in native computer code or machine language. Errors from programming code and malformed html can keep the search engine robots from indexing your web pages. This is the process that analyzes an HTML document in comparison to standard HTML rules, identifying errors and non-standard codes. Wait a minute, I'm a software engineer… why not look at their code and try to figure out some of their major weaknesses. Nobody studies the old code, and nobody figures out where it is inefficient and why, and as a consequence programs are often buggy and less stable. This time it was traced to a college student in Romania who had also left obvious clues to his identity in the code. If the malware inside this ZIP file is opened, the Trojan may attempt to download more malicious code from a pre-programmed list of websites. He adds that progress on debugging code is a tad slow, pointing to threads you can find on this bulletin board. We had to program in assembly code and call a play routine every vertical blank. Using this drag-and-drop methodology, users can create program code with minimal user input or understanding. He encouraged people to look at his program and modify it for their own needs and to send him their code to add to the system. Hackers gain secret control of the computers by sending e-mail viruses and worms or by planting software code on web sites. Millions of lines of software code are involved, and we haven't even gotten to matters like billing and maintenance. 3A systematic collection of laws or regulations. the criminal code Example sentencesExamples It would be perfectly possible for a criminal code to provide separate crimes of negligence, with lower maximum sentences, at appropriate points in the hierarchy of offences. Civil law and commercial law derive from the French, while the penal code is influenced by the British model. Under the doctrine of breach of statutory duty some regulatory codes may give rise to civil liability when breached. Dissidence, even active, is not war and the normal criminal and civil codes of law still apply. In Warwick, only 75 miles away, these activities are all deemed acceptable farming uses under the zoning code. When he put up a tricolour atop his factory, the police slapped a case on him for violating the flag code. The penal code does not criminalize such conduct, and would be clearly unconstitutional if it did. In order to conform to strict fire codes the employer shall have the right to conduct safety inspections and fire drills at the employees home at any time. The difficult concept of ‘adverse possession’ of private property appears in both codes in a nearly identical manner. In many states, there is a criminal code which tabulates criminal offences. Influenced by popular discontent with much of the judiciary, Napoleon attempted to write a statutory code that was essentially judge-proof. He submitted that implementation of planning permissions was not dealt with by the statutory code. With the growing power of the state, statutory tenure codes were drawn up by centralized governments, reflecting the values and interests of the state. The Muslim minority views the code as an indirect abrogation of their cultural freedom. This is itself a judicial interpolation into the statutory code. Under the old code, mothers were assigned priority in matters of child custody, and fathers were granted visiting rights. With compliance to building codes a given, the real question on many projects is whether it is worthwhile to go beyond code requirements. Despite the stark words of the various codes regulating ministerial and MSP conduct, the MSPs of various parties will let the First Minister off. You look and see what principles have been established in prior cases rather than just referring to a piece of legislation or a code. The constitution, the penal code, and international and human rights conventions are the only guide to what is acceptable and what is not. Synonyms law, laws, body of law, rules, regulations, constitution, system, charter, canon, jurisprudence 3.1 A set of conventions governing behavior or activity in a particular sphere. a dress code Example sentencesExamples Utmost secrecy was the dictator's code of practice and few witnesses survived to testify about his daily life. Instead, the real issue is getting golf's expanding legions of fans to adhere to a time-honored code of behavior. The nations that survive and prosper and become world powers are the ones that adhere to strict moral codes. I applaud both the concept of a code of ethics by which industry members are bound, and the revamping of the disciplinary process. They believe these activities may violate their code of conduct and bring shame upon them. Why have ethical codes not figured prominently in discussions of the peer review process? Edwards said the code of conduct was sent to parents as a matter of course and was unrelated to Wednesday's match. Sir, my research indicates that there is no code of dress prescribed or agreed upon for attorneys appearing in the magistrates court. The code dictated concepts such as loyalty, honor and virtue. I know, the old moral codes weren't painless either. When people are designing their own religions and their own moral codes, is it any shock that they're designing their own politics, too? There is no written code of conduct for these venues, although each one will have a slightly different unwritten code of behavior. Religion has as much to do with the furnishing of moral and ethical codes as it does with non-natural explanations of the origins of the universe. There's no formal code of behavior, at least none I've been able to fathom. The suggestion seems to be that they offer him a sense of family and belonging, and that he identifies with their dubious code of loyalty. For one thing, it means that we can have different codes of morality, one code for the public self, the other for the private self. We need each other, but women have always been the ones to set the moral codes, to keep men and their children on the right track. Use of these drugs is routinely equated with socially degraded status and participation in activities indicative of the code of the streets. But these are not the sort of thing that a good company man does; a remarkably effective code bans such behavior. A 13-point code of conduct governing all buskers working in Oxford is expected to come into force next month. A sly and sophisticated writer, he could always get around the code of silence with indirection. There is no supreme code of behavior that dictates who I have to be nice to. This is so profoundly a part of the military code of behavior that it cannot be over-emphasized. The prejudging judgment might be as broad as the spoken English language, or the dictionary, or some other code or convention. The authorities obviously want to continue to maintain the code of secrecy of all the corruption perpetrated. In fact, among surfers there's a fairly rigid code of beach behavior, which includes a strict pecking order. Chandelor wanted his so-called knights to have honor, a moral code of ethics, things with which tradition would expect. The actors of today are simply too pretty and too vacant to depict the men and women of sterner days and stricter moral codes. The ombudsman criticised the school for breaking strict admissions rules set out in the code of practice on comprehensive admissions. I was one of two writers invited by the commission on culture and sport to help an ad hoc committee put into words a new code of practice. While a code of secrecy applies, there also exists a pool of top homeowners willing to sell their properties if the price is right, even though they are not on the market. Does this country possess the courage to affirm a common code of principles, of manners? The Government has laid out its ideas for a proposed voluntary code to govern how communication firms handle calls, e-mails and web access. In almost every case the wrongdoing is by a few since most people operate according to high moral codes whatever the degree of disorganization. They have their own code of morals and honor, just like anyone else. The rigid social, moral and behavioural codes imposed by the group included severe restrictions on women's freedom of movement, expression and association. To be worthy of that love, he adopted a strict code of moral conduct. The gentlemen's code also served to limit aggressive behavior after the battle. While today we may disagree with some of the wording or even the concepts in this early code of ethics, few would disagree with its intent or its essence. There are already many accepted codes of practice for magick but they weren't formulated with modern modes of communication in mind. Synonyms set of principles, set of standards, set of customs 3.2 A set of rules and standards adhered to by a society, class, or individual. a stern code of honor verbkoʊdkōd [with object] 1Convert (the words of a message) into a particular code in order to convey a secret meaning. only Mitch knew how to read the message—even the name was coded Example sentencesExamples It is an awareness of how language codes the way we view the world, and how membership in various communities influences our understanding of the world. Thus the hats contain a message coded in the manner in which they are worn. Not only may they be purposely babbling and coding their conversations to confuse the eavesdroppers, but there are also the complexities of language itself. Given that the messages are claimed to be coded, it would seem that network editing is unlikely to pick them out. Three-fourths of the message has already been deciphered, but the remaining fourth has apparently been coded in an entirely different way. The package enables audio traffic - such as a phone conversation - to be coded as data, sent down an internet connection and then decoded at the other end. There were little clues, like the fact that messages often started with a weather report, or the fact that Enigma never ever coded a given letter as itself. Places carry meanings and are coded with narrative significances, and these built-in values are useful to writers. But markets only respond to messages coded in the language of prices. Sometimes the information she communicates is coded or covert - where exactly the missing animal may be found, for instance. 1.1 Express the meaning of (a statement or communication) in an indirect or euphemistic way. they code their language when talking to the general public Example sentencesExamples This minority group has long been coded in U.S. popular culture as a threat, a people who keep their motives and means well hidden. So any seasoned interpreter immediately understood that ‘Curriculum for Excellence’ was coded language for tat and dumbing-down. Unchallenged, mainstream film coded the erotic into the language of the dominant patriarchal order. On the back of this page are the directions to it, coded as a precaution. This visual narrative appears to have incorporated other animal stories as well as interjected some coded political statements. It is also one of the reasons why music is coded, and the political purposes of the musicians do not necessarily coincide with the political sentiments expressed in the lyrics. Petroleum wealth seems often to be coded as undeserved and also as automatically making people rich. There were hints about social security reform and coded signals about moving to a flat tax, but this speech, like this convention, was a war speech. His private perspective on public space, though highly subjective, is not coded with any personal information. The Singaporean filmmaker argues that he's only amplifying what's already coded into the fable. But then, as he says of himself, he must be coded an optimist. He has removed any potential threat of even coded criticism from the foreign secretary by removing him from his post. How is a reader supposed to understand what an article is actually about if everything is all coded and coy? Enigmatic, coded, complicated, the film is a distinctive commentary on art, race, gender and nationalities. In a curious move, bombing the country is coded as a greater humanitarian good than feeding or educating people. 1.2 Assign a code to (something) for purposes of classification, analysis, or identification. she coded the samples and sent them down for dissection Example sentencesExamples The athlete watches the official seal both bottles, which are coded with a number rather than a name. Questionnaires were anonymous, coded by a unique number rather than by name. For each question, those students that replied affirmatively were coded with the value 1. All audit observations should be coded by type and significance, and all audits catalogued by scope and quality. Type and severity of maltreatment were coded using the maltreatment classification system developed by Barnett et al. Behaviors and conversation were noted and were coded by using the theoretical framework of enduring and suffering and comforting. Paintings will be coded with serial numbers and will come with a receipt to prove authenticity. A nurse brought us a large number of test tubes, each one coded with a secret number so that we could not tell which contained fructose and which contained glucose. Documents show that this money appears to have been on deposit in the account, coded A / A40. Similarly, alcohol-related words were coded as 1 and nonalcohol words coded as 0. Each source quoted or paraphrased was coded separately, and all of a source's statements in an article were taken into account when applying coding categories. All sections were coded to prevent identification of the probe type or setting used. Response envelopes were coded with the hospital identification number to protect confidentiality. Instruments were coded with an identification number to track and follow up with non respondents. Prior to coding, the names of speakers were removed (as were explicit references to the names of the parties themselves). They were also taperecorded, but were not transcribed for analysis since interviewers coded respondents' answers to all questions during the interview. If you code your medicines, be sure these identifications are included on any medicine record you use. The samples were coded so that the identity of the individual was not known to the person carrying out the tests. A person named Nguyen O'Brien will be coded Vietnamese, not Irish. The transcribed statements were coded according to general themes that emerged. 2Write code for (a computer program) most developers code C + + like C no object I no longer actively code in PHP Example sentencesExamples I didn't find it a difficult exam, but then I've been coding Windows Forms since Visual Basic 4 back in 1997. New software for the state health care authority is being coded in part in India. When we code a computer program, we do not rewrite the entire thing every time something fails to work. When you think of high technology, you probably imagine a software engineer sitting behind a computer, coding some new program. Today while working on a design for a small project I'm doing, I coded a JavaScript image rollover for the first time in at least a year, maybe two. 3code forBiochemistry no object Specify the genetic sequence for (an amino acid or protein) genes that code for human growth hormone Example sentencesExamples Several members of this group were found to contain a gene lying downstream of the YR gene that codes for a protein of unknown function. Mutations in genes coding for these proteins may be tolerated in an otherwise wild-type cell through the presence of one or more checkpoint pathways. This gene codes for a protein which is 513 amino acids in length. Because of their possibly unusual evolution, genes coding for ribosomal proteins were excluded from the analysis. Each gene, or a combination of genes, codes for the assembly of amino acids that combine in long chains forming proteins. 3.1 Be the genetic determiner of (a characteristic) one pair of homologous chromosomes that codes for eye color Example sentencesExamples The loss of eye function is the result of a ‘downhill’ mutational change, a corruption or loss of the genetic information coding for eye manufacture. It had nothing to do with demonstrating how the genetic information coding for feathers could have arisen in the imagined reptilian ancestors of birds. Data from animals suggest that the portion of the genome coding for reproduction-related function may be unusually dynamic. The population will have ‘responded’ and become ‘adapted,’ but only because the genetic information coding for waxier cuticles and deeper roots was already present. Applying these principles to the horse, the genetic information coding for extra toes is present, but is switched off in most modern horses. Phrases bring something up to code Renovate an old building or update its features in line with the latest building regulations. Example sentencesExamples You will probably have to bring the home up to code if you undertake a remodeling. Workers replaced the windows, cleaned the brick and brought the building up to code with ramps and elevators. He warns that bringing the building up to code would be ‘extravagantly expensive.’ We didn't have to bring the bathrooms up to code and compliance because we didn't change the existing structure; instead, we cosmetically cleaned them up. If your older deck was built this way, bring it up to code. In 1905, the architect bought the building on Orchard Street and included these improvements when he brought it up to code. The gallery, which was formerly a storefront, had to undergo a few building improvements to bring it up to code. The company then told her that she would have to use its contractors to bring the building up to code. Right now, many wood stove manufacturers don't want to invest the $50,000 extra it would take to bring their product up to code. He also said it would cost at least $5000 either to remove the addition or to bring it up to code. Synonyms renovate, redecorate, refurbish, recondition, rehabilitate, rebuild, reconstruct, overhaul, make over Origin Middle English: via Old French from Latin codex, codic- (see codex). The term originally denoted a systematic collection of statutes made by Justinian or another of the later Roman emperors; compare with code (sense 3 of the noun) (mid 18th century), the earliest modern sense. noun.1 phr.
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