different between truth vs code

English

Alternative forms

• trewth (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English trouthe, truthe, trewthe, treowthe, from Old English tr?owþ, tr?ewþ (“truth, veracity, faith, fidelity, loyalty, honour, pledge, covenant”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiþ? (“promise, covenant, contract”), from Proto-Indo-European *dr?- (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *deru- (“firm, solid”), equivalent to true +? -th. Cognate with Norwegian trygd (“trustworthiness, security, insurance”), Icelandic tryggð (“loyalty, fidelity”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: tr??th, IPA^(key): /t?u??/
• Rhymes: -u??

Noun

truth (usually uncountable, plural truths)

1. True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.
2. Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.
3. The state or quality of being true to someone or something.

4. (archaic) Faithfulness, fidelity.
   • 1797-1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel

     Alas! they had been friends in youth, / But whispering tongues can poison truth.

5. (obsolete) A pledge of loyalty or faith.
6. Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc.

   • Ploughs, […] to make them go true, […] depends much upon the truth of the ironwork.

   • 1840, Joseph Whitworth, "A Paper on Plane Metallic Surfaces or True Planes":

     The process of grinding is, in fact, regarded as indispensable wherever truth is required, yet that of scraping is calculated to produce a higher degree of truth than has ever been attained by grinding.

7. That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or ‘genuine’ reality.
8. (countable) Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.
9. (physics, dated) Topness; the property of a truth quark.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:truth

Antonyms

• falsehood, falsity, lie, nonsense, drivel, untruth, half-truth

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

truth (third-person singular simple present truths, present participle truthing, simple past and past participle truthed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To assert as true; to declare; to speak truthfully.
   • c. 1636 John Ford, The Fancies Chaste and Noble

     Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven.

2. To make exact; to correct for inaccuracy.
3. (nonstandard, intransitive) To tell the truth.
   • 1966, Nancy Sinatra, "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"

     You keep lying, when you oughta be truthin'

See also

• truth on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• truth at OneLook Dictionary Search
• truth in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• truth in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Hurtt

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