Code and Idea

noun

• A set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones.
  • synonyms: codification
• 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)
  • synonyms: computer code

verb

• Attach a code to.
  • usage: "Code the pieces with numbers so that you can identify them later"
• Convert ordinary language into code.
  • usage: "We should encode the message for security reasons"
  • synonyms: encipher, cipher, cypher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code

• (n.) 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.
• (n.) 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.

noun

• The content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about.
  • usage: "it was not a good idea"; "the thought never entered my mind"
  • synonyms: thought
• Your intention; what you intend to do.
  • usage: "he had in mind to see his old teacher"; "the idea of the game is to capture all the pieces"
  • synonyms: mind
• A personal view.
  • usage: "he has an idea that we don't like him"
• An approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth.
  • usage: "an estimate of what it would cost"; "a rough idea how long it would take"
  • synonyms: estimate, estimation, approximation
• Music) melodic subject of a musical composition. (
  • usage: "the theme is announced in the first measures"; "the accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it"
  • synonyms: theme, melodic theme, musical theme

• (n.) A general notion or a conception formed by generalization.
• (n.) The transcript, image or picture of a visible object, that is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of any object whatever, whether sensible or spiritual.
• (n.) A belief, option or doctrine; a characteristic or controlling principle; as, an essential idea; the idea of development.
• (n.) A plan or purpose of action; intention; design.
• (n.) A rational conception; the complete conception of an object when thought of in all its essential elements or constituents; the necessary metaphysical or constituent attributes and relations, when conceived in the abstract.
• (n.) Hence: Any object apprehended, conceived or thought of, by the mind; a notion, conception or thought; the real object that is conceived or thought of.
• (n.) A fiction object or picture created by the imagination; the same when proposed as a pattern to be copied or a standard to be reached; one of the archetypes or patterns of created things, conceived by the Platonists to have excited objectively from eternity in the mind of the Deity.