code vs request

code

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

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

  • 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. 

verb
  • 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. 

  • To write software programs. 

request

noun
  • A formal message requesting something. 

  • A message sent over a network to a server. 

  • Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence). 

  • Condition of being sought after. 

verb
  • To ask (somebody) to do something. 

  • To ask for (something). 

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