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code

noun as in secret language system

noun as in law, rule, or convention

noun as in instructions for a computer

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verb as in to write in computer language or program

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While breaking Russian codes, Simons had realized something.

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Catholicism is the faith I was baptized in, the one I embraced as a teen and that’s the bedrock for my moral code of comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.

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“There’s a lot of common questions that people ask but once in a while people ask some weird questions that are not coded in the system yet,” says Chan.

The young woman had been arrested by the morality police for allegedly violating the dress code.

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Tribes wield significant influence and often operate under their own moral and judicial codes, and they possess huge caches of arms.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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