Synonyms for Code
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1. code

   Law, in its ideal, is the statement of a principle of right in mandatory form, by competent authority, with adequate penalty for disobedience; in common use, the term is applied to any legislative act, however imperfect or unjust. Command and commandment are personal and particular; as, the commands of a parent; the ten commandments. An edict is the act of an absolute sovereign or other authority; we speak of the edict of an emperor, the decree of a court. A mandate is specific, for an occasion or a purpose; a superior court issues its mandate to an inferior court to send up its records. Statute is the recognized legal term for a specific law; enactment is the more vague and general expression. We speak of algebraic or chemical formulas, municipal ordinances, military orders, army regulations, ecclesiastical canons, the rules of a business house. Law is often used, also, for a recognized principle, whose violation is attended with injury or loss that acts like a penalty; as, the laws of business; the laws of nature. In more strictly scientific use, a natural law is simply a recognized system of sequences or relations; as, Kepler's laws of planetary distances. A code is a system of laws; jurisprudence is the science of law, or a system of laws scientifically considered, classed, and interpreted; legislation, primarily the act of legislating, denotes also the body of statutes enacted by a legislative body. An economy (Greek oikonomia, primarily the management of a house) is any comprehensive system of administration; as, domestic economy; but the word is extended to the administration or government of a state or people, signifying a body of laws and regulations, with the entire system, political or religious, especially the latter, of which they form a part; as, the code of Draco, Roman jurisprudence, British legislation, the Mosaic economy. Law is also used as a collective noun for a system of laws or recognized rules or regulations, including not only all special laws, but the principles on which they are based. The Mosaic economy is known also as the Mosaic law, and we speak of the English common law, or the law of nations. Polity (Greek politeia, from polis, a city) signifies the form, constitution, or method of government of a nation, state, church, or other institution; in usage it differs from economy as applying rather to the system, while economy applies especially to method, or to the system as administered; an economy might be termed a polity considered with especial reference to its practical administration, hence commonly with special reference to details or particulars, while polity has more reference to broad principles.

   Synonyms:
   canon, command, commandment, decree, economy, edict, enactment, formula, jurisprudence, law, legislation, mandate, order, ordinance, polity, principle, regulation, rule, statute

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1. code, codificationnoun

   a set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones)

   Synonyms:
   codification, code, computer code

2. codenoun

   a coding system used for transmitting messages requiring brevity or secrecy

   Synonyms:
   codification, computer code

3. code, computer codeverb

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

   Synonyms:
   codification, code, computer code

4. codeverb

   attach a code to

   "Code the pieces with numbers so that you can identify them later"

   Synonyms:
   cipher, write in code, cypher, inscribe, encrypt, encipher

5. code, encipher, cipher, cypher, encrypt, inscribe, write in codeverb

   convert ordinary language into code

   "We should encode the message for security reasons"

   Synonyms:
   work out, code, enrol, engrave, figure, reckon, cipher, cypher, grave, scratch, autograph, enter, inscribe, write in code, encrypt, enroll, encipher, recruit, compute, calculate

Matched Categories

1. • Coding System
   • Label
   • Written Communication

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. codenoun

   Synonyms:
   digest, collection of laws

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1. List of paraphrases for "code":

   codes, código, law, codice, coding, encodes, accnt, cipher, wetboek, icoc

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. code

   Synonyms:
   Emergency care True code

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1. Alberto Salazar:

   This is completely false and contrary to the findings of the arbitrators, who even wrote about the care I took in complying with the World Anti-Doping code.

2. Ken Thompson:

   SCCS is the source-code motel -- your code checks in but it never checks out.

3. Logan Autry:

   The principal told me to take it off, and I still didn’t take it off, and she said it was against the dress code to wear the hat, but I looked in the dress code and it was not against it.

4. Eddie Rausch:

   We'd reached the point where veterans who used the service didn’t want other veterans to know about the service because they saw them as competition, to solve that problem, we instituted a lottery for great tickets and prizes. Each veteran gets a unique URL or QC Code they can send out to their buddies, and once those buddies sign up and get verified, the veteran gets virtual participation appreciation coins in [their] account. They can use each coin as a chip in the hat for any lottery. So for every buddy you sign up it increases your odds.

5. Cedoni Francis:

   I can't code to save my life.