Usually means: Instructions for computers to execute.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. code: Merriam-Webster
  2. code: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. code: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. code: Collins English Dictionary
  5. code: Vocabulary.com
  6. COde, Code, code: Wordnik
  7. code: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. code: Wiktionary
  9. code: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. code: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. code: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. CoDE: Dictionary.com
  13. code: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. code: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. CODE, Code (Cabaret Voltaire album), Code (album), Code (band), Code (cryptography), Code (disambiguation), Code (law), Code (metadata), Code (semiotics), Code (video game), Code (web series), Code, The Code (EP), The Code (Fear the Walking Dead), The Code (TV series), The Code (album), The Code (band), The Code (game show), The Code, The code: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Code: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. code: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. code: Rhymezone
  19. Code (m), code, code (de), code (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. code: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. code: FreeDictionary.org
  22. code: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. code: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. code: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. code: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  3. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  4. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. code: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. code: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. code: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Bernstein's Dictionary of Bankruptcy Terminology (No longer online)
  7. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Electronic Commerce Dictionary (No longer online)
  9. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  10. Code (communications), Code (law), code: Legal dictionary
  11. Code (communications), code: Financial dictionary
  12. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. code: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Code, code: CCI Computer
  3. Code: Cybernetics and Systems
  4. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  5. Code: Hacking Lexicon
  6. Technopedia (No longer online)
  7. Code (communications), Code (computer), Code (computer programming), Code (computers programming), Code (cryptography), code: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. code: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Code: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  6. DICTIONARY OF TERMS IN ORAL PHYSIOLOGY (No longer online)
  7. Code (communications), code: Medical dictionary
  8. Code: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. CODE: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. code: Idioms
  6. code: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Code: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. code, code, code: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  3. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Code, code: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. code: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Locksmith Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  5. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  6. code: Television: Critical Methods and Applications

(Note: See codable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A short textual designation, often with little relation to the item it represents.
noun:  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.
noun:  Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.
noun:  A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
noun:  By synecdoche: a codeword, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity.
noun:  A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
noun:  (cryptography) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
noun:  (programming, uncountable) Instructions for a computer, written in a programming language; the input of a translator, an interpreter or a browser, namely: source code, machine code, bytecode.
noun:  (scientific programming) A program.
noun:  (linguistics) A particular lect or language variety.
noun:  (medicine) An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.
noun:  (informal) A set of unwritten rules that bind a social group.
verb:  (computing) To write software programs.
verb:  (transitive) To add codes to (a data set).
verb:  To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
verb:  (cryptography) To encode.
verb:  (genetics, intransitive) To encode a protein.
verb:  (medicine) To call a hospital emergency code.
verb:  (medicine) Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest.
noun:  A surname.

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