Word Finder - codes

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

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This flavour of soup has been assigned the code WRT-9.

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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.

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

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The medical code is a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians.

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

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A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.

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

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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.

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I wrote some code to reformat text documents.

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(scientific programming) A program.

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A particular lect or language variety.

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An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.

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To write software programs.

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I learned to code on an early home computer in the 1980s.

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To add codes to a dataset.

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

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To encode.

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We should code the messages we send out on Usenet.

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To encode a protein.

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To call a hospital emergency code.

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coding in the CT scanner

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

These letters and numbers represent the products' data codes.

He's flaunted the divine codes for too long.

At home Crispi secured the adoption of the Sanitary and Commercial Codes, and reformed the administration of justice.

He traveled for a day and slid beneath the radars of Qatwal easily, having stolen the codes needed to jam their tracking systems during one of his scuffles with Kisolm.

The dates were all from the past week, and she recognized two of the originating net codes as being from Mr. Tim and General Greene.

Her gaze flickered to the screen beneath her fingertips, and she typed the alarm disarm codes.

Do demons have Immortal Codes?

She won't need to break the Immortal Codes and return your mate to you, because in the next three days, you'll be out of her hair.

On some of these points the codes differ, and the whole is to be regarded as the ideal qualification, built up theoretically by the canonists.

The speed of a cable is given in words per minute, the conventional number of five letters per word being understood, though in actual practice, owing to the extensive use of special codes, the number of letters per word is really between eight and nine; and this forms a considerable factor in lowering the earning capacity of a cable.

In Parma, on the other hand, there was very little oppression, the French codes were retained, and the council of state was consulted on all legislative matters.

In August Marco Minghetti succeeded in forming a military league and a customs union between Tuscany, Romagna and the duchies, and in procuring the adoption of the Piedmontese codes; and envoys were sent to Paris to mollify Napoleon.

The rescript, however, was not incorporated in the Codes and perhaps was only a temporary measure.

But the matter is now determined for all countries which have adopted codes, whether after the pattern of the Code Napoleon or otherwise.

The existence of " high places " is presupposed in those two ancient codes and is also presumed in the narratives of the documents E and J which contain them.

It is quite clear that many provisions in the old codes of J and E expanded lie at the basis of the book of Deuteronomy.

The reader is referred to the article France (Law and Institutions) for the information respecting the various codes dating from this period, and to the article Concordat for the famous measure whereby Napoleon re-established official relations between the state and the church in France.

All these laws may in general be described as codes of procedure and tariffs of compositions.

In this work he personally prepared almost the whole of the political and civil codes.

The codification, which was completed in February 1865, was adopted only in small part by the state, but it has served as a model after which most of the law codes of the United States have been constructed.

To obtain these heavenly mysteries, which alone make the Torah superior to profane codes, definite hermeneutical rules are employed, of which the following are the most important.

All the old codes of the Peninsula, as well as the laws of the Indies and special royal decrees and schedules, were in force in the colony.

The United States left the task of altering the laws to the people, as far as there was no conflict between them and the Constitution of the United States and fundamental American legal customs. Copies of the Spanish codes were very rare, and some of them could not be had in the colonies.

The codes of law were by him revised and improved, and he was the first sultan to enter into relations with foreign states.

Commercial and criminal codes, as well as codes of procedure, were drawn up, largely on the basis of the Code Napoleon.

Leclere, Les codes cambodgiens (2 vols., Paris, 1898), and other works on Cambodian law; Francis Garnier, Voyage d'exploration en IndoChine (Paris, 1873).

We do not know how far these recensions were uniform in the beginning; but a variance must have occurred shortly after, for the manuscripts in which the codes are preserved differ greatly from each other.

The law administered is that of the civil and penal codes of the German empire, and the court of appeal for all three Hanse towns is the common Oberlandesgericht, which has its seat in Hamburg.

There are, however, no outward signs enabling us to distinguish conclusively between both categories of laws in the codes, nor is it possible to draw a line between permanent laws and personal ordinances of single sovereigns, as has been attempted in the case of Frankish legislation.

While it is impossible to give here anything like a complete or exact survey of the field - a task rendered almost impossible by the arbitrary manner in which paragraphs are divided, by the difficulty of making Old English enactments fit into modern rubrics, and by the necessity of counting several times certain paragraphs bearing on different subjects - a brief statistical analysis of the contents of royal codes and laws may be found instructive.

The oldest Anglo-Saxon codes, especially the Kentish and the West Saxon ones, disclose a close relationship to the barbaric laws of Lower Germany - those of Saxons, Frisians, Thuringians.

The codes in their turn tended still further to harden these usages into fixed forms, and we may date from the end of the 13th century an age of feudal law regulating especially the holding and transfer of land, and much more uniform in character than the law of the feudal age proper.

He gained possession of the Janiculum, and was prevented from entering Rome only by the bravery of Horatius Codes (q.v.).

In jurisprudence, which may be regarded as one of the outlying regions of literature, Roman genius had had some of its greatest triumphs, and, if we take account of the "codes," was active to the end.

But though the line of great lawyers had ceased, the effects of their work remained and are clearly visible long after in the "codes" - the code of Theodosius (438) and the still more famous code of Justinian (529 and 533), with which is associated the name of Tribonianus.

In the same year he was chosen a member of the first state legislature of California, in which he drew up and secured the enactment of two bodies of law known as the Civil and Criminal Practices Acts, based on the similar codes prepared by his brother David Dudley for New York.

Their houses, at first without bonds between them, soon tended to draw together and coalesce into congregations with corporate organization and codes of constitutions supplementary to the Rule.

A special Ministry - that for " the unification of legislation and administrative organization " - has been entrusted with the unification of the law s for the whole republic; and two commissions of legal experts under the control of the Ministry of Justice were in 1921 at work on a careful revision of the old codes, which when completed would be issued as a uniform code for the entire republic.

Here we have a complete survey of the leading codes of Slavonic jurisprudence.

For example, the recent discovery of the Code of Khammurabi, which contains some remarkable resemblances to the Pentateuchal codes, raises the question of the relation of Hebrew to Babylonian law.

There are likewise supreme and inferior courts in most of the states, governed by the civil and criminal codes in force in the federal district.

In many states the legislatures have taken action in the development of law by adopting statutory codes of procedure, and in some instances have even enacted codes embodying the substance of the common law fused with the statutes.

These latter codes have not, however, received the general approval of the legal profession.

In the story of the Exodus there have been incorporated codes of laws and institutions which were to be observed by the descendants of the Israelites in their future 2 To the same hand are to be ascribed also xxvii.

For France and Germany, see the codes of those countries.

These declarations were obviously a concession to the widespread feeling, among civilized nations, that peace is an object in itself, an international political condition requiring its code of methods and laws just as much as the domestic political conditions of nations require their codes of methods and laws.

The experience gained in the great famines of 1898 and 1901 has been garnered by these commissions, and stored up in the "famine codes" of each separate province, where rules are provided for the treatment of famine directly a crop failure is seen to be probable.

The works of the classical authors before mentioned were printed, and other treatises were published by John de Indagine, Codes, Andreas Corvus, Michael Blondus, Janus Cornaro, Anselm Douxciel, Pompeius Ronnseus, Gratarolus, Lucas Gauricus, Tricassus, Cardanus, Taisnierus, Magnus Hund, Rothman, Johannes Padovanus, and, greatest of all, Giambattista della Porta.

Many of the reforms in the penal codes of the principal European nations are traceable to Beccaria's treatise.

The civil and criminal codes at Argentina have been adopted, almost without change.