code – English noun declension

English noun forms of code

Noun: code
Singularcode
Pluralcodes

Sample Sentences

  • This flavour of soup has been assigned the code WRT-9.
  • the mild and impartial spirit which pervades the Code compiled under Canute [1872, Francis Wharton, A Treatise on the Conflict of Laws:]
  • The medical code is a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians.
  • The naval code is a system of rules for making communications at sea by means of signals.
  • The ASCII code of "A" is 65.
  • [Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes. [2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:]
  • Object-oriented C++ code is easier to understand for a human than C code.
  • I wrote some code to reformat text documents.
  • This HTML code may be placed on your web page.
  • girl code

Etymology

1. From Middle English code (“system of law”), from Old French code (“system of law”), from Latin cōdex, later form of caudex (“the stock or stem of a tree, a board or tablet of wood smeared over with wax, on which the ancients originally wrote; hence, a book, a writing.”). Doublet of codex.
2. Verb etymology 1, verb sense 7 is an ellipsis of code blue (“medical emergency”). See: Middle English Nouns 'code', Latin Nouns 'cōdex'.

Verbs referencing "code"

Dutch Nouns code, German Nouns Code, Spanish Nouns código, Polish Nouns kod, Swedish Nouns kod, Finnish Nouns koodi, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns kode, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns kode, Czech Nouns kód, Hungarian Nouns kód.