break down vs code

break down

verb
  • To divide into parts to give more details, to provide a more indepth analysis of. 

  • To demolish, to pull down. (intentionally) 

  • To (cause to) decay, to decompose. 

  • To cease to function. (others) 

  • To stop functioning. (machine, computer, vehicle) 

  • To fail, especially socially or for political reasons. 

  • To give in, relent, concede, or surrender. 

  • To render or to become weak and ineffective. 

  • To digest. 

  • To render or to become unstable due to stress, to collapse physically or mentally. 

  • To collapse, physically or in structure. (unexpectedly) 

code

verb
  • To write software programs. 

  • To encode. 

  • To call a hospital emergency code. 

  • To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes. 

  • To go into a state where a hospital emergency code is required to save one's life. 

  • To encode a protein. 

  • To add codes to a dataset. 

  • Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest. 

noun
  • By synecdoche: a codeword, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity. 

  • A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning. 

  • Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject. 

  • A program. 

  • A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords. 

  • A particular lect or language variety. 

  • A set of unwritten rules that bind a social group. 

  • Instructions for a computer, written in a programming language; the input of a translator, an interpreter or a browser, namely: source code, machine code, bytecode. 

  • A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents. 

  • 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. 

  • An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff. 

  • A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation. 

How often have the words break down and code occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )