Code

Portuguese Meaning

código

cifra

sistema de sinais

codificar

cifrar

English Meaning

  1. A systematically arranged and comprehensive collection of laws.
  2. A systematic collection of regulations and rules of procedure or conduct: a traffic code.
  3. A system of signals used to represent letters or numbers in transmitting messages.
  4. A system of symbols, letters, or words given certain arbitrary meanings, used for transmitting messages requiring secrecy or brevity.
  5. A system of symbols and rules used to represent instructions to a computer; a computer program.
  6. Genetics The genetic code.
  7. Slang A patient whose heart has stopped beating, as in cardiac arrest.
  8. To systematize and arrange (laws and regulations) into a code.
  9. To convert (a message, for example) into code.
  10. Genetics To specify the genetic code for an amino acid or a polypeptide.
  11. Computer Science To write or revise a computer program.
  12. Slang To go into cardiac arrest.