Cord vs. Code — What's the Difference?

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.

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.

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

A system of words, letters, figures, or symbols used to represent others, especially for the purposes of secrecy

A hangman's rope.

Program instructions

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

A systematic collection of laws or statutes

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

Convert (the words of a message) into a code so as to convey a secret meaning

A raised rib on the surface of cloth.

Write code for (a computer program)

A fabric or cloth with such ribs.

Be the genetic code for (an amino acid or protein)

Cords Pants made of corduroy.

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

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).

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

To fasten or bind with a cord

An access code.

To furnish with a cord.

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.

To pile (wood) in cords.

The information that constitutes a specific computer program.

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.

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

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.

(Genetics) The genetic code.

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.

A systematically arranged and comprehensive collection of laws.

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

A systematic collection of regulations or rules of procedure or conduct

(anatomy) Any structure having the appearance of a cord, especially a tendon or nerve.

(Medicine) Code blue.

Dated form of chord: musical sense.

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

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

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

To furnish with cords

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

To tie or fasten with cords

To assign a code to (something) for identification or classification

To flatten a book during binding

To express or convey (words) in a manner that implies a different meaning

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

To specify the genetic code for an amino acid or a polypeptide

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

To specify the genetic code for a trait or characteristic

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.

(Computers) To write or revise a computer program.

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.

(Slang) To go into cardiac arrest.

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

A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.

See Chord.

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.

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.

Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.

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

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

A line made of twisted fibers or threads;

By synecdoche: a codeword, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity.

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

A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.

A light insulated conductor for household use

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

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

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.

Stack in cords;

(scientific programming) A program.

Bind or tie with a cord

(linguistics) A particular lect or language variety.

(medicine) An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.

(informal) A set of unwritten rules that bind a social group.

(computing) To write software programs.

To add codes to a dataset.

To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.

(cryptography) To encode.

To encode a protein.

(medicine) To call a hospital emergency code.

To go into a state where a hospital emergency code is required to save one's life.

(medicine) Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency a code blue such as cardiac arrest.

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.

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.

A set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones)

A coding system used for transmitting messages requiring brevity or secrecy

(computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions

Attach a code to;

Convert ordinary language into code;