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Code

noun

A set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones). Synonym: codification.

A coding system used for transmitting messages requiring brevity or secrecy.

(computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions. Synonym: computer code.

verb

Attach a code to.

Convert ordinary language into code. Synonyms: cipher, cypher, encipher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code.

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"Code" Quotes from Famous Books

... concealed his doings for many years, people at least give him all the credit he can expect, saying, "Surely he was a very clever fellow to deceive us for so long!" There are plenty of ways which serve to conceal evil doings, from the vulgar lies which make up the code of schoolboy honor, to the national bad faith which systematically violates all treaties when they cease to be lucrative; from the promising youth who borrows money from his tailor, and has it charged to his father with compound interest as "account ...

— Paul Patoff • F. Marion Crawford

... me that you have always known that I stole from your prescription counter the formula which gave me my first fortune, and for that reason every dollar I possess to-day is branded with the finger print of a thief; and you, the upright physician, held by the old code of honour which makes your profession a fraternity of ancient chivalry, come now with your hat in hand and ask me for a ...

— The Root of Evil • Thomas Dixon

... interlocutor. Stamfordham, although he was well aware that Rendel had married during the spring, had but dimly realised the practical difference that this change of condition might bring into the young man's life and into the code by which his actions were governed. He himself had not married. He had had, report said, one passing fancy and then another, but they had never amounted to more than an impulse which had set him further on ...

— The Arbiter - A Novel • Lady F. E. E. Bell

... "that his company and that of Captain Chandler were the best drilled in the regiment." In the West Indies he was drawn into a duel which caused him sorrow until his dying day, for in it he was forced by the "code of honor" to kill a German fellow-officer, and bore a scar of the affair ever after on his forehead. It is related that by his great strength he cut the ...

— An Account Of The Battle Of Chateauguay - Being A Lecture Delivered At Ormstown, March 8th, 1889 • William D. Lighthall

... been going on without interruption from the period of the first Punic War.[1] In later times all elephants were the property of the Kandyan crown; and their capture or slaughter without the royal permission was classed amongst the gravest offences in the criminal code. ...

— Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon • J. Emerson Tennent

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