Code vs. Coda — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Code and Coda
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Code
In communications and information processing, code is a system of rules to convert information—such as a letter, word, sound, image, or gesture—into another form, sometimes shortened or secret, for communication through a communication channel or storage in a storage medium. An early example is an invention of language, which enabled a person, through speech, to communicate what they thought, saw, heard, or felt to others.
Coda
(Music) The concluding passage of a movement or composition.
Code
A system of words, letters, figures, or symbols used to represent others, especially for the purposes of secrecy
The Americans cracked their diplomatic code
Messages written in code
Coda
A conclusion or closing part of a statement.
Code
Program instructions
Assembly code
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Coda
(music) A passage that brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation.
Code
A systematic collection of laws or statutes
A revision of the penal code
Coda
(phonology) The optional final part of a syllable, placed after its nucleus, and usually composed of one or more consonants.
The word “salts” has three consonants — /l/, /t/, and /s/ — in its coda, whereas the word “glee” has no coda at all.
Code
Convert (the words of a message) into a code so as to convey a secret meaning
Only Mitch knew how to read the message—even the name was coded
Coda
(geology) In seismograms, the gradual return to baseline after a seismic event. The length of the coda can be used to estimate event magnitude, and the shape sometimes reveals details of subsurface structures.
Code
Write code for (a computer program)
Most developers code C + + like C
I no longer actively code in PHP
Coda
(figuratively) A conclusion (of a statement or event, for example), final portion, tail end.
Code
Be the genetic code for (an amino acid or protein)
Genes that code for human growth hormone
Coda
A few measures added beyond the natural termination of a composition.
Code
A system of signals used to represent letters or numbers in transmitting messages.
Coda
The closing section of a musical composition
Code
A system of symbols, letters, or words given certain arbitrary meanings, used for transmitting messages requiring secrecy or brevity.
Code
An access code.
Code
A special command, such as a sequence of keystrokes, that allows a user to activate a hidden or accidental feature in a computer program or video game.
Code
The information that constitutes a specific computer program.
Code
A system of symbols and rules that serve as instructions for a computer.
Code
(Genetics) The genetic code.
Code
A systematically arranged and comprehensive collection of laws.
Code
A systematic collection of regulations or rules of procedure or conduct
A building code.
Code
(Medicine) Code blue.
Code
(Slang) A patient whose heart has stopped beating, as in cardiac arrest.
Code
To convert (a message, for example) into code.
Code
To systematize and arrange (laws and regulations) into a code.
Code
To assign a code to (something) for identification or classification
Coded each response to the survey by age and gender.
Code
To express or convey (words) in a manner that implies a different meaning
A novel that codes references to a character's sexuality in descriptions of clothing.
Code
To specify the genetic code for an amino acid or a polypeptide
A gene that codes for an enzyme.
Code
To specify the genetic code for a trait or characteristic
A gene that codes for red hair.
Code
(Computers) To write or revise a computer program.
Code
(Slang) To go into cardiac arrest.
Code
A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.
This flavour of soup has been assigned the code WRT-9.
Code
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.
Code
Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.
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.
Code
A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
Code
By synecdoche: a codeword, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity.
The ASCII code of "A" is 65.
Code
A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
Code
(cryptography) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
Code
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.
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.
Code
(scientific programming) A program.
Code
(linguistics) A particular lect or language variety.
Code
(medicine) An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.
Code
(informal) A set of unwritten rules that bind a social group.
Girl code
Code
(computing) To write software programs.
I learned to code on an early home computer in the 1980s.
Code
To add codes to a dataset.
Code
To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
Code
(cryptography) To encode.
We should code the messages we send out on Usenet.
Code
To encode a protein.
Code
(medicine) To call a hospital emergency code.
Coding in the CT scanner
Code
To go into a state where a hospital emergency code is required to save one's life.
He coded out of nowhere
Code
(medicine) Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency a code blue such as cardiac arrest.
Code
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.
Code
Any system of rules or regulations relating to one subject; as, the medical code, a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians; the naval code, a system of rules for making communications at sea means of signals.
Code
A set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones)
Code
A coding system used for transmitting messages requiring brevity or secrecy
Code
(computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions
Code
Attach a code to;
Code the pieces with numbers so that you can identify them later
Code
Convert ordinary language into code;
We should encode the message for security reasons
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