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The correct spelling is code.
How to pronounce code
/kəʊd/
nounIPA: /kəʊd/
Say it like: Cod-e
The correct spelling is code. A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents. For example: "This flavour of soup has been assigned the code WRT-9."
Usage Examples
“This flavour of soup has been assigned the code WRT-9.”
“The medical code is a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians.”
“I wrote some code to reformat text documents.”
Meanings
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.
- 5.A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
verb
- 1.To write software programs.
- 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.
- 5.To encode a protein.
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