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What does code mean?

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Noun
  1. A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.
  2. A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.
  3. Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.
  4. A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
    1. By synecdoche: a codeword, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity.
  5. A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
  6. (cryptography) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
  7. (programming) Instructions for a computer, written in a programming language; the input of a translator, an interpreter or a browser, namely: source code, machine code, bytecode.
  8. (scientific programming) program
  9. (linguistics) A particular lect or language variety.
Verb
  1. (computing) To write software programs.
  2. To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
  3. (cryptography) To encode.
  4. (genetics) To encode a protein.
Verb
  1. (medicine) Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest.
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