codeとは

語源 1

From Old French code (“system of law”), from Latin cōdex, later form of caudex (“the stock または stem of a tree, a board または tablet of wood smeared over with wax, on which the ancients originally wrote; hence, a book, a writing.”).

名詞

code (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 codes)

1. A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.

   This flavour of soup has been assigned the code WRT-9.

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.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Francis Wharton

     The collection of laws made by the order of Justinian is sometimes called, by way of eminence, "The Code".

3. Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.

   The medical code is a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians.

   The naval code is a system of rules for making communications at sea by means of signals.

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.

      The ASCII code of "A" is 65.

5. A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
   • 2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:

     [Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes.

6. (cryptography) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
7. (programming, uncountable) 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.

   Object-oriented C++ code is easier to understand for a human than C code.

   I wrote some code to reformat text documents.

   This HTML code may be placed on your web page.

8. (scientific programming) A program.
9. (linguistics) A particular lect or language variety.

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関連する語

参考

• cipher

動詞

code (三人称単数 現在形 codes, 現在分詞 coding, 過去形および過去分詞形 coded)

1. (computing) To write software programs.

   I learned to code on an early home computer in the 1980s.

2. To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
3. (cryptography) To encode.

   We should code the messages we send out on Usenet.

4. (genetics, intransitive) To encode a protein.
5. (medicine) To call a hospital emergency code.

   coding in the CT scanner

派生語

参照

• Code (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.
• code on Wikipedia.

語源 2

From code blue, a medical emergency

動詞

code (三人称単数 現在形 codes, 現在分詞 coding, 過去形および過去分詞形 coded)

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

Further reading

• code in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• code in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

アナグラム

• Deco, OECD, co-ed, coed, deco, ecod