🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

código

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /ˈko.ði.ɣo/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Code/koʊd/
nounverbCEFR A2 (Elementary)Top #150 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Debes introducir el código secreto para abrir la puerta."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A set of rules or laws governing behavior or procedure, or a system of words, letters, or figures substituted for other words, letters, etc., for the purpose of secrecy.

    "The spies used a complex secret code to transmit messages across enemy lines."
  2. 2

    Instructions written in a computer language that can be executed to perform a specific task.

    "She spent the entire afternoon debugging lines of code for the new software application."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Middle English 'code', meaning a collection of laws or a systematic statement of a body of law, stemming from the Latin 'codex', meaning a block of wood or book of statutes. Over centuries, the meaning expanded from legal books to secret communication systems, and ultimately to instructions for computer programming.

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