Code and Interpret

code

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

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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

interpret

(v.t.) To apprehend and represent by means of art; to show by illustrative representation; as, an actor interprets the character of Hamlet; a musician interprets a sonata; an artist interprets a landscape.
(v.i.) To act as an interpreter.
(v.t.) To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applied especially to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc.; as, to interpret the Hebrew language to an Englishman; to interpret an Indian speech.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Make sense of; assign a meaning to.
- usage: "What message do you see in this letter"; "How do you interpret his behavior"
- synonyms: construe, see
Give an interpretation or explanation to.
- synonyms: rede
Give an interpretation or rendition of.
- usage: "The pianist rendered the Beethoven sonata beautifully"
- synonyms: render
Create an image or likeness of.
- usage: "The painter represented his wife as a young girl"
- synonyms: represent
Restate (words) from one language into another language.
- usage: "I have to translate when my in-laws from Austria visit the U. S."; "Can you interpret the speech of the visiting dignitaries"; "She rendered the French poem into English"; "He translates for the U. N."
- synonyms: translate, render
Make sense of a language.
- usage: "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek"
- synonyms: understand, read, translate