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Code vs Number -
What's the difference?
code | number |

As verbs the difference between code and

number
is that code is while number is to label (items)
with numbers; to assign numbers to (items).

As a noun number is (countable) an abstract

entity used to describe quantity.
As an adjective number is (numb).

Other Comparisons: What's the

difference?
Code vs Renumberer Number vs Codeword

code number

English English
(wikipedia code)
Alternative forms
Noun * (l) (obsolete)
(en noun)
A short symbol, often with Noun
little relation to the item it (en noun)
represents.
 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.
* (Francis Wharton) (1820-
1899)
The collection of laws made by
the order of Justinian is
sometimes called, by way of
eminence, "The Code ".
Any system of principles,
rules or regulations relating to
one subject; as, the medical
code, a system of rules for the
regulation of the professional
conduct of physicians; the
naval code, a system of rules
for making communications at
sea means of signals.
A set of rules for converting
information into another form
or representation.
# 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.
* {{quote-magazine,
date=2014-06-21, volume=411,
issue=8892, magazine=(The
Economist), title= “Magician’s
brain” , passage=[Isaac
Newton] was obsessed with
alchemy. He spent hours
copying alchemical recipes and
trying to replicate them in his
laboratory. He believed that
the Bible contained
numerological codes .}}
(label) A cryptographic
system using a codebook that
converts words]] or phrases
into [[codeword, codewords.
(countable) An abstract
entity used to describe
quantity.
(countable) A numeral: a
symbol for a non-negative
integer
(countable, mathematics) A
member of one of several
classes: natural numbers,
integers, rational numbers,
real numbers, complex
numbers, quaternions.
Indicating the position of
something in a list or
sequence. Abbreviations: No''
or '' (in each case, sometimes
written with a superscript "o",
like Nº or №). The symbol "#" is
also used in this manner.
Quantity.
* {{quote-magazine,
date=2013-06-08, volume=407,
issue=8839, page=52,
magazine=(The Economist),
title= “The new masters and
commanders” , passage=From
the ground, Colombo’s port
does not look like much.
* Francis Bacon
Number itself importeth not
much in armies where the
people are of weak courage.
A sequence of digits and
letters used to register people,
automobiles, and various other
items.
(countable, informal) A
telephone number.
* 2001 , E. Forrest Hein,
The Ruach Project, Xulon
Press, page 86:
“[...] I wonder if you could get
hold of him and have him call
me here at Interior. I’m in my
office, do you have my number
?”
* 2007 , Lindsey Nicole
Isham, No Sex in the City: One
Virgin's Confessions on Love,
 (label) 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.
# By synecdoche: any piece
of a program, of a document or
something else written in a
computer language.
Derived terms
* binary code * civil code *
code page * codebook *
codestream * codeword *
colour code * dead code * Gray
code * machine code *
managed code * Morse code *
opcode * promo code *
pseudocode * sort code *
Unicode * unreachable code
Related terms
* codex * codifier * codify *
codification
See also
* cipher
Verb
(computing) To write
software programs.
I learned to code on an early
home computer in the 1980s.
To categorise by assigning
identifiers from a schedule, for
example CPT coding for
medical insurance purposes.
(cryptography) To encode.
We should code the messages
we sent out on Usenet.
(medicine) Of a patient, to
suffer a sudden medical
emergency such as cardiac
arrest.
(genetics) To encode a
protein.
Lust, Dating, and Waiting,
Kregel Publications, page 111:
When I agreed to go surfing
with him he said, “Great, can I
have your number'?” Well, I
don’t give my ' number to
guys I don’t know.
(grammar) Of a word or
phrase, the state of being
singular, dual or plural, shown
by inflection.
(now, rare, in the plural)
Poetic metres; verses, rhymes.
* 1635 , (John Donne), The
Triple Foole :
Griefe brought to numbers
cannot be so fierce, / For, he
tames it, that fetters it in
verse.
(countable) A performance;
especially, a single song or song
and dance routine within a
larger show.
(countable, informal) A
person
* 1968 , Janet Burroway,
The dancer from the dance: a
novel, Little, Brown, page 40:
I laughed. "Don't doubt that.
She's a saucy little number ."
* 1988 , Erica Jong,
Serenissima, Dell, page 214:
"Signorina Jessica," says the
maid, a saucy little number ,
"your father has gone to his
prayers and demands that you
come to the synagogue at once
[...]"
* 2005 , Denise A. Agnew,
Kate Hill & Arianna Hart, By
Honor Bound, Ellora's Cave
Publishing, page 207:
He had to focus on the mission,
staying alive and getting out,
not on the sexy number
rubbing up against him.
(countable, informal) An
item of clothing, particularly a
stylish one
Derived terms * 2007 , Cesca Martin,
Agony Angel: So You Think
* coder * cSNP * decode *
encode * hard-coded You've Got Problems...,
Troubador Publishing Ltd, page
134:
External links
The trouble was I was wearing
**
my backless glittering number
from the night before
Anagrams underneath, so unless I could
* * ---- persuade the office it was
National Fancy Dress Day I was
doomed to sweat profusely in
bottle blue.
* 2007 , Lorelei James,
Running with the Devil,
Samhain Publishing, Ltd, page
46:
"I doubt the sexy number you
wore earlier tonight fell from
the sky."
(slang, chiefly, US) A
marijuana cigarette, or joint;
also, a quantity of marijuana
bought form a dealer.
* 2009 , (Thomas Pynchon),
Inherent Vice , Vintage 2010,
page 12:
Back at his place again, Doc
rolled a number , put on a late
movie, found an old T-shirt,
and sat tearing it up into short
strips
(dated) An issue of a
periodical publication.
the latest number of a
magazine

Synonyms
* (mathematical number) scalar

Hyponyms
* See also

Derived terms
* abundant number * algebraic
number * binary number *
cardinal number * complex
number * decimal number *
deficient number * do a
number on * have someone's
number * hexadecimal number
* house number * hyperreal
number * hypercomplex
number * imaginary number *
irrational number * meandric
number * natural number * nice
round number * number-
cruncher * number-crunching *
number field * number line *
number one * number two *
number theory * numberless *
ordinal number * opposite
number * perfect number *
phone number * prime number
* rational number * real
number * round number * serial
number * surreal number * take
a number * telephone number *
transcendental number *
transfinite number * whole
number * without number *
(number)

Related terms
* numeral * numeric *
numerical

See also
* (grammatical numbers)
singular,? dual,? trial,?
quadral,? paucal,? plural

Verb
(en verb)
To label (items) with
numbers; to assign numbers to
(items).
Number the baskets so that we
can find them easily.
To total or count; to amount
to.
I don’t know how many books
are in the library, but they
must number in the thousands.

Derived terms
* number among

See also
*
 Adjective
(head)
(numb)

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* 1000 English basic words 200
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