codes

/kəʊdz//koʊdz/

noun

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.
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.”
4
A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
5
A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
6
A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
7
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.
“I wrote some code to reformat text documents.”
8
(scientific programming) A program.
9
A particular lect or language variety.
10
An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.

1
To write software programs.
“I learned to code on an early home computer in the 1980s.”
2
To add codes to a dataset.
3
To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
4
To encode.
“We should code the messages we send out on Usenet.”
5
To encode a protein.
6
To call a hospital emergency code.
“coding in the CT scanner”

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

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