Code and Numbering

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

numbering

Add up in number or quantity.
- usage: "The bills amounted to $2, 000"; "The bill came to $2, 000"
- synonyms: total, number, add up, come, amount
Give numbers to.
- usage: "You should number the pages of the thesis"
- synonyms: number
Enumerate.
- usage: "We must number the names of the great mathematicians"
- synonyms: number, list
Put into a group.
- usage: "The academy counts several Nobel Prize winners among its members"
- synonyms: count, number
Determine the number or amount of.
- usage: "Can you count the books on your shelf"; "Count your change"
- synonyms: count, number, enumerate, numerate
Place a limit on the number of.
- synonyms: number, keep down

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary