Code and Language

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

• A systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols.
  • usage: "he taught foreign languages"; "the language introduced is standard throughout the text"; "the speed with which a program can be executed depends on the language in which it is written"
  • synonyms: linguistic communication
• Language) communication by word of mouth. (
  • usage: "his speech was garbled"; "he uttered harsh language"; "he recorded the spoken language of the streets"
  • synonyms: speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, voice communication, oral communication
• The text of a popular song or musical-comedy number.
  • usage: "his compositions always started with the lyrics"; "he wrote both words and music"; "the song uses colloquial language"
  • synonyms: lyric, words
• The cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication.
  • usage: "he didn't have the language to express his feelings"
  • synonyms: linguistic process
• The mental faculty or power of vocal communication.
  • usage: "language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals"
  • synonyms: speech
• A system of words used to name things in a particular discipline.
  • usage: "legal terminology"; "biological nomenclature"; "the language of sociology"
  • synonyms: terminology, nomenclature

• (v.t.) To communicate by language; to express in language.
• (n.) Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the throat and mouth.
• (n.) The expression of ideas by writing or any other instrumentality.
• (n.) The forms of speech or the methods of expressing ideas, peculiar to a particular nation.
• (n.) The characteristic mode of arranging words, peculiar to an individual speaker or writer; manner of expression; style.
• (n.) The suggestion, by objects, actions or conditions, of ideas associated therewith; as, the language of flowers.
• (n.) A race, as distinguished by its speech.
• (n.) The vocabulary and phraseology belonging to an art or department of knowledge; as, medical language; the language of chemistry or theology.
• (n.) The inarticulate sounds by which animals inferior to man express their feelings or their wants.