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Cord

A slender length of flexible material usually made of twisted strands or fibers and used to bind, tie, connect, or support. See Usage Note at chord1.

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.

Cord

An insulated flexible electric wire fitted with a plug or plugs.

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

Cord

A hangman's rope.

Code

Program instructions
Assembly code
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Cord

An influence, feeling, or force that binds or restrains; a bond or tie.

Code

A systematic collection of laws or statutes
A revision of the penal code

Cord

Also chord(Anatomy)A long ropelike structure, such as a nerve or tendon
A spinal cord.

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

Cord

A raised rib on the surface of cloth.

Code

Write code for (a computer program)
Most developers code C + + like C
I no longer actively code in PHP
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Cord

A fabric or cloth with such ribs.

Code

Be the genetic code for (an amino acid or protein)
Genes that code for human growth hormone

Cord

Cords Pants made of corduroy.

Code

A system of signals used to represent letters or numbers in transmitting messages.

Cord

A unit of quantity for cut fuel wood, equal to a stack measuring 4 × 4 × 8 feet or 128 cubic feet (3.62 cubic meters).

Code

A system of symbols, letters, or words given certain arbitrary meanings, used for transmitting messages requiring secrecy or brevity.

Cord

To fasten or bind with a cord
Corded the stack of old newspapers and placed them in the recycling bin.

Code

An access code.

Cord

To furnish with a cord.

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.

Cord

To pile (wood) in cords.

Code

The information that constitutes a specific computer program.

Cord

A long, thin, flexible length of twisted yarns (strands) of fiber (rope, for example); uncountable such a length of twisted strands considered as a commodity.
The burglar tied up the victim with a cord.
He looped some cord around his fingers.

Code

A system of symbols and rules that serve as instructions for a computer.

Cord

A small flexible electrical conductor composed of wires insulated separately or in bundles and assembled together usually with an outer cover; the electrical cord of a lamp, sweeper (US vacuum cleaner), or other appliance.

Code

(Genetics) The genetic code.

Cord

A unit of measurement for firewood, equal to 128 cubic feet (4 × 4 × 8 feet), composed of logs and/or split logs four feet long and none over eight inches diameter. It is usually seen as a stack four feet high by eight feet long.

Code

A systematically arranged and comprehensive collection of laws.

Cord

(figuratively) Any influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord.

Code

A systematic collection of regulations or rules of procedure or conduct
A building code.

Cord

(anatomy) Any structure having the appearance of a cord, especially a tendon or nerve.
Spermatic cord; spinal cord; umbilical cord; vocal cords

Code

(Medicine) Code blue.

Cord

Dated form of chord: musical sense.

Code

(Slang) A patient whose heart has stopped beating, as in cardiac arrest.

Cord

Misspelling of chord: a cross-section measurement of an aircraft wing.

Code

To convert (a message, for example) into code.

Cord

To furnish with cords

Code

To systematize and arrange (laws and regulations) into a code.

Cord

To tie or fasten with cords

Code

To assign a code to (something) for identification or classification
Coded each response to the survey by age and gender.

Cord

To flatten a book during binding

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.

Cord

To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.

Code

To specify the genetic code for an amino acid or a polypeptide
A gene that codes for an enzyme.

Cord

A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together.

Code

To specify the genetic code for a trait or characteristic
A gene that codes for red hair.

Cord

A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four feet broad; - originally measured with a cord or line.

Code

(Computers) To write or revise a computer program.

Cord

Fig.: Any moral influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord; an enticement; as, the cords of the wicked; the cords of sin; the cords of vanity.
The knots that tangle human creeds,The wounding cords that bind and strainThe heart until it bleeds.

Code

(Slang) To go into cardiac arrest.

Cord

Any structure having the appearance of a cord, esp. a tendon or a nerve. See under Spermatic, Spinal, Umbilical, Vocal.

Code

A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.
This flavour of soup has been assigned the code WRT-9.

Cord

See Chord.

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.

Cord

To bind with a cord; to fasten with cords; to connect with cords; to ornament or finish with a cord or cords, as a garment.

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.

Cord

To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.

Code

A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.

Cord

A line made of twisted fibers or threads;
The bundle was tied with a cord

Code

By synecdoche: a codeword, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity.
The ASCII code of "A" is 65.

Cord

A unit of amount of wood cut for burning; 128 cubic feet

Code

A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.

Cord

A light insulated conductor for household use

Code

(cryptography) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.

Cord

A cut pile fabric with vertical ribs; usually made of cotton

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.

Cord

Stack in cords;
Cord firewood

Code

(scientific programming) A program.

Cord

Bind or tie with a cord

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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