code
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When code helps
Base Score
1
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
4
C D E O
Two-Letter Start
CO
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
DE
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- 4 letters
- 4 unique letters
- CO start
- DE ending
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- code is a four-letter word, so it is worth 1 point when accepted.
- It uses 4 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include c, d, e, o plus any remaining hive letters.
- The DE ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the CO start.
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Pronunciation
noun
A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.
"This flavour of soup has been assigned the code WRT-9."
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.
noun
Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.
"The medical code is a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians."
noun
A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
noun
A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
noun
A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
noun
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.
"I wrote some code to reformat text documents."
noun
(scientific programming) A program.
noun
A particular lect or language variety.
noun
An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.
verb
To write software programs.
"I learned to code on an early home computer in the 1980s."
verb
To add codes to a dataset.
verb
To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
verb
To encode.
"We should code the messages we send out on Usenet."
verb
To encode a protein.
verb
To call a hospital emergency code.
"coding in the CT scanner"
verb
Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest.
Related Words
Same Letters
- decoded
- decode
- coded
- cooed
- coed
- deco