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.
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.
An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.
A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
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.
A public agency charged with enforcing laws and maintaining public order, usually being granted special privileges to do so, particularly
The staff of such a department or agency, particularly its officers; (regional, chiefly US, Caribbean, Jamaica, Scotland, countable) an individual police officer.
Any of the formally enacted law enforcement agencies at various levels of government.
A branch of the Home Office responsible for general law enforcement within a specific territory.
A department of local (usually municipal) government responsible for general law enforcement.
People who try to enforce norms or standards as if granted authority similar to the police.
Cleanup of a military facility, as a formal duty.
To clean up an area.
To enforce norms or standards upon.
To enforce the law and keep order among (a group).