Main Entry: ²code

Function: verb

Inflected Form(s): cod·ed; cod·ing

transitive verb

: to specify the genetic code for <an amino acid coded by a nucleotide sequence>

intransitive verb

1 : to specify the genetic code <the DNA sequence of the gene that codes for that protein—Gina B. Kolata>
2 : to experience cardiac arrest or respiratory failure <the patient coded a second time>