Code and Morality

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

• Concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong; right or good conduct.
• Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong.
  • synonyms: ethical motive, ethics, morals

• (n.) A kind of allegorical play, so termed because it consisted of discourses in praise of morality between actors representing such characters as Charity, Faith, Death, Vice, etc. Such plays were occasionally exhibited as late as the reign of Henry VIII.
• (n.) The practice of the moral duties; rectitude of life; conformity to the standard of right; virtue; as, we often admire the politeness of men whose morality we question.
• (n.) The quality of an action which renders it good; the conformity of an act to the accepted standard of right.
• (n.) The relation of conformity or nonconformity to the moral standard or rule; quality of an intention, a character, an action, a principle or a sentiment, when tried by the standard of right.
• (n.) Intent; meaning; moral.
• (n.) The doctrines or rules of moral duties or the duties of men in their social character; ethics.