code vs police

code

noun
  • 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. 

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. 

police

noun
  • 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. 

verb
  • To clean up an area. 

  • To enforce norms or standards upon. 

  • To enforce the law and keep order among (a group). 

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