different between rudiment vs code

English

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin rudimentum (“a first attempt, a beginning”), plural rudimenta (“the elements”), from rudis (“rude”); see rude.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??u?d?m?nt/

Noun

rudiment (plural rudiments)

1. (often in the plural) A fundamental principle or skill, especially in a field of learning.

   We'll be learning the rudiments of thermodynamics next week.
2. (often in the plural) A form that lacks full or complex development.

   I have the rudiments of an escape plan.

   • a. 1865, Isaac Taylor, Ornamentation of Nature

     The single leaf is the rudiment of beauty in landscape.

3. (biology) A body part that no longer has a function
4. (music) In percussion, one of a selection of basic drum patterns learned as an exercise.

Hypernyms

• (biology): vestigiality

Derived terms

• rudimental
• rudimentary

Related terms

• erudite

Translations

Further reading

• rudiment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• rudiment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• rudiment at OneLook Dictionary Search

Verb

rudiment (third-person singular simple present rudiments, present participle rudimenting, simple past and past participle rudimented)

1. (transitive) To ground; to settle in first principles.

Anagrams

• unmitred

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin rudimentum.

Noun

rudiment m (plural rudiments)

1. rudiment (fundamental principle)

Related terms

• rudimentari

Further reading

• “rudiment” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “rudiment” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “rudiment” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “rudiment” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Latin rudimentum

Noun

rudiment m (plural rudiments)

1. rudiment (fundamental principle)

Related terms

• rudimentaire

Further reading

• “rudiment” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Romanian

Etymology

From French rudiment, from Latin rudimentum.

Noun

rudiment n (plural rudimente)

1. rudiment

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Rudiment, from Latin rudimentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rud?ment/
• Hyphenation: ru?di?ment

Noun

rudìment m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. rudiment

Declension

References

• “rudiment” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ko?d/
• Rhymes: -??d

Etymology 1

From Middle English code (“system of law”), from Old French code (“system of law”), from Latin c?dex, later form of caudex (“the stock or stem of a tree, a board or tablet of wood smeared over with wax, on which the ancients originally wrote; hence, a book, a writing.”).

Noun

code (countable and uncountable, plural codes)

1. A short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents.

2. 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.
   • 1872, Francis Wharton, A Treatise on the Conflict of Laws

     the mild and impartial spirit which pervades the Code compiled under Canute

3. Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.

4. A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
   1. By synecdoche: a codeword, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity.

5. A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
6. (cryptography) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
7. (programming, uncountable) 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.

8. (scientific programming) A program.
9. (linguistics) A particular lect or language variety.
10. (medicine) An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.
11. (informal) A set of unwritten rules that bind a social group.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (k?do)

Translations

See also

• cipher

Verb

code (third-person singular simple present codes, present participle coding, simple past and past participle coded)

1. (computing) To write software programs.

2. To add codes to a dataset.
3. To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
4. (cryptography) To encode.

5. (genetics, intransitive) To encode a protein.
6. (medicine) To call a hospital emergency code.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• Code (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• code on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From code blue, a medical emergency

Verb

code (third-person singular simple present codes, present participle coding, simple past and past participle coded)

1. (medicine) Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest.

Translations

Further reading

• code in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• code in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Deco, OECD, co-ed, coed, deco, ecod

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• coadã

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin coda, from Latin cauda. Compare Daco-Romanian coad?.

Noun

code f (plural codz, definite articulation coda)

1. tail

Derived terms

• cuditse

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowing from French code, in the senses relating to laws and rules. Senses related to cryptography and coding have been borrowed from English code. Both derive from Old French code, from Latin c?dex.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ko?.d?/
• Hyphenation: co?de

Noun

code m (plural codes, diminutive codetje n)

1. book or body of laws, code of laws, lawbook

   Synonym: wetboek

2. system of rules and principles, e.g. of conduct
3. code (set of symbols)
4. code (text written in a programming language)

Derived terms

• codenaam
• codetaal
• codewoord
• gedragscode
• inlogcode
• pincode
• programmeercode
• streepjescode

Related terms

• coderen
• codex

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: kode

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?d/

Noun

code m (plural codes)

1. code

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Danish: kode
• ? Turkish: kod

Further reading

• “code” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• déco

Friulian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin c?da, variant of Latin cauda.

Noun

code f (plural codis)

1. tail
2. queue, line

Italian

Noun

code f

1. plural of coda

Anagrams

• cedo

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English cudu, cwidu, cweodu, from Proto-West Germanic *kwidu.

Alternative forms

• coode, cood, cude, kude, quede, quide, cuyd, coude, cudde

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kud(?)/, /?ko?d(?)/, /?kwe?d(?)/, /?kwid(?)/

Noun

code (uncountable)

2. Any kind of plant gum; a gummy or resinous substance.
3. Cud; regurgitated food chewed upon by livestock.
4. (rare) A mass or lump; a large pile of something.

Descendants

• English: cud, quid
• Scots: cude, cuid

References

• “cud(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-21.

Etymology 2

From Old French code, from Latin c?dex, caudex.

Alternative forms

• coode

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??d(?)/
• (Northern) IPA^(key): /?kø?d(?)/

Noun

code (rare)

2. A coherent and unified body of laws.
3. The core of someone's last testament.

Descendants

• English: code
• Scots: cude, cuid, cood

References

• “c?de, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-21.

Etymology 3

From Old English codd and Old Norse koddi.

Noun

code

1. Alternative form of codde (“seedpod”)

Old French

Noun

code m (oblique plural codes, nominative singular codes, nominative plural code)

1. Alternative form of coute

Tarantino

Noun

code

1. tail