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noun

ˈkōd How to pronounce code (audio)
Definition of codenext
as in law
a collection or system of rules of conduct Hammurabi was an ancient king of Babylon with a famous code of laws the tax code

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verb

as in to cipher

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Recent Examples of code
Noun
The aircraft issued a general distress call before switching to a code signaling a hijacking. — Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 1 Oct. 2026 Most enterprise workloads—such as code completion, data transformation, API integration and internal utilities—operate well below frontier capabilities. — Aruna Veerappan, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
Verb
The tech company spent several months building and internally testing Cloudflare OS, which allows employees to describe workflows in natural language so that an AI agent can code them into applications. — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 6 Aug. 2026 Shopify's e-commerce platform lets anyone build a digital shop and sell things without needing to code. — Alexa Lomonaco, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for code
Recent Examples of Synonyms for code
  1. law
  2. cipher
  3. constitution
  4. encode
  5. encrypt
Noun
  • Pan, a pediatrician, made national headlines while in the Legislature for leading California’s efforts to enact strict school vaccine laws.
    — Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2026
  • The president and his allies have insisted that existing liability laws offer enough protections.
    — Jeff Masonand Michael Shepard Bloomberg, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of law
Verb
  • The real challenge from AI will likely emerge in the weeks and months ahead as firms cipher through Judge Mehta’s enforcement of behavioral requirements.
    — Tor Constantino, Forbes.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • These remnants, signals from an earlier phase of our human condition, have been endlessly ciphered by generations of archaeologists in the Bears Ears region (which is named for twin buttes near its center).
    — STEPHEN NASH, New York Times, 25 July 2017
Definition of cipher
Noun
  • That's important because ballot secrecy is a fundamental right under the state constitution and violations could create an opening for legal challenges.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2026
  • This ballot measure would amend the state constitution to nix that system by first asking voters to choose whether or not to oust an official.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of constitution
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  • The four chemical units that make up strands of DNA also encode information that can serve as the basis of algorithmic calculations.
    — Mike McRae September 22, New Atlas, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Because of the high likelihood of corruption, our devices encode messages with enough redundancy that they can be pieced together by the receiving machine despite the errors incurred in transit.
    — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of encode
Verb
  • The group is known for infiltrating companies by exploiting software vulnerabilities or server misconfigurations to breach IT networks and then spreading ransomware to encrypt computers.
    — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 1 Oct. 2026
  • To encrypt messages with RSA, someone just needs to know one of these numbers, which, like RSA-260, have only two prime factors; decryption requires knowing both specific primes.
    — Peter Hall, Scientific American, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of encrypt

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