I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a code of conduct (= a set of rules stating how you must behave )
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All professions have a code of conduct.
a code of honour (= a set of moral rules, laws, or principles that people follow )
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We abide by a strict military code of honor.
a moral code (= a set of beliefs about right and wrong that influences your behaviour )
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His own moral code is based on his religious beliefs.
a strict code (= set of rules about what is acceptable )
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The club has a strict dress code.
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Doctors have a strict code of conduct.
area code
bar code
code name
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a crime busting operation code-named Jeeves
code word
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‘Lively discussion’ is a code word for ‘arguing’.
colour coded
crack...code
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It took them nearly two months to crack the code .
dialling code
genetic code
Highway Code
machine code
Morse code
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a message in Morse code
object code
penal code
source code
Universal Product Code
zip code
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
genetic
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One works by crossing two parents with slightly different genetic codes , and mixing their genes randomly.
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Language is the same in this respect as telegraphy, genetic codes , and mathematics.
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These examples show clearly that the human genetic code does not contain specific instructions to behave in a particular way.
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Even the genetic code , which is arbitrary, is the same in all species.
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The idea of genetic algorithms is to mimic natural Darwinian selection of genetic codes .
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There is no biological need for each to have the same genetic code .&038;.
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True enough, these two groups use the same basic genetic code .
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Their genetic code cells were showing similar deformities to those of Chernobyl residents.
legal
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He curbed the tribal chiefs and imposed a secular legal code .
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His major achievement was a comprehensive and unusually liberal legal code .
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On the contrary, it works within the framework of the Zande legal code and studiously observes all its provisions and prescriptions.
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Accordingly, measures were taken to draw up a new legal code .
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A unified legal code was established there in 1725-29.
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This explains why patriarchal legal codes sometimes ostracize and punish the victim of rape as much as the rapist.
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There are, however, particular difficulties in establishing a legal code for the control of advertisements.
moral
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She emphasised the status of housework as a moral code rather than a logical practice.
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Luther is, after all, true to his own weird moral code .
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He will not voluntarily do anything which conflicts with his personal moral code , nor can he be induced to do so.
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The comedia lacrimosa champions a new moral code founded on friendship, tolerance, humanity and charity.
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This is fairly obvious with a relatively abstract form such as a moral code .
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His parents, he knew, had followed a simpler moral code .
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Anyway the moral code prevents him from taking her back whether he wants to or not.
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Our obligation is to define the liberty of all, not to mandate our own moral code ....
penal
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Both Nash reversion and Abreu's simple penal codes are subgame perfect equilibrium strategies and so satisfy this criterion of credibility.
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At the start, parliamentarians were given different versions of the penal code to discuss.
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Self-defacement, inciting anti-Soviet attitudes, it's all in the penal code .
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But lawyers, investigators and police have only contempt for the penal code , in force since Jan. 1.
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But what needs to be changed is the spirit of the penal code .
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You should note that the penal codes of some nations impose time limits for the reporting of crime.
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This law includes amendments to the penal code and the conditional release of approximately 38,000 prisoners.
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Euthanasia technically remained a criminal offence subject to a minimum prison sentence of 12 years under Article 293 of the penal code .
secret
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And we proved it by cracking the manufacturers' secret codes .
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The journal comes with eight secret codes to protect privacy.
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We've got to talk in secret codes , like the P-Funk codes.
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There were secret caches, secret trails, secret codes , secret missions, secret terrors and appetites and longings and regrets.
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His days of peering into the secret codes of foreign nations, he feared, were over for ever.
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She was shouting again, trying to tell Glover something in her secret code .
strict
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No questions were asked as long as recruits accepted the harsh conditions and the unit's strict code of honour.
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He had an extremely strict code of conduct for himself and a lenient one for others.
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The scathing attack from consumer watchdogs comes only months after the introduction of a strict code of practice designed to improve services.
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All students are informed by their instructor of the strict code of taekwondo.
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Sainsbury's says it has a strict listeria code of practice and is confident that standards of hygiene are effective.
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He displayed that strange other-worldliness that I have sometimes detected in other people who follow some strict religious code .
voluntary
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In this respect, voluntary codes of practice applied in a particular trade are highly relevant.
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This voluntary code sets standards for retailers buying goods from the third world.
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That was shown about 20 years ago, shortly after the first voluntary code .
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But there is already a head of steam in parliament to make the proposed voluntary takeover code legally binding.
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They have said that there is too much legislation and that voluntary codes are required.
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The voluntary code , which will cover offshore centres, has no provisions for sanctions or enforcement checks.
zip
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The records will be sorted by zip code and displayed on the screen.
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Searches can be done by name, county or ZIP code .
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Most of the zip codes with little or no comeback were concentrated in the East Bay and far North Bay.
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Today, their zip code boasts the most expensive residential real estate in the Bay Area.
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Neighborhood distinctions are arbitrary and often straddle zip codes .
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The report indicates the number of permits issued by ZIP code , age, gender and race.
■ NOUN
access
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The computer itself could only be activated by an access code known solely to Bailey.
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The five-digit access code is required until at least March 1997, when the state market is more fully deregulated.
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After feeding in the access code he sat back and stifled a yawn.
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This provides you with a voice message telephone number and access code .
area
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And the area code showed it was in Dusseldorf - 70 miles away.
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Public meetings will be held in San Diego in November to discuss possible boundaries for the next 619 area code split.
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The full name and address to which the account must be paid and also its telephone number complete with area code .
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On one he found four telephone numbers with out-of-state area codes .
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Prefix changes Telephone customers with these prefixes have been switched to the new 760 area code .
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It suggested dialing 10-321 before 1 and the area code .
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Beginning tomorrow, you have to deal with area code 760.
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Local calls remain local calls, even if the call crosses area codes .
bar
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To read in such a small bar code successfully requires a very high degree of resolution.
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Here bundles of cloth arrive from the mills decked in bar codes .
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The do-it-yourself bar code user therefore has to write his or her own reader software.
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Next month some practical bar code hardware and software will be described.
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There is a bar code plus thirteen digit number on the front of this copy of Everyday Electronics.
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When a bar code is read, all that is fed into the computer system is the same number.
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Without this massive data base, all you read in from the bar code is a meaningless number.
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And as bar codes have only 13 digits, are they going to run out of codes?
dress
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It's a cool drinking venue, with a noir dress code observed by the arty crowd and staff.
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Usually, there is something behind a dress code , some reasoning.
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The elegance and grace of riding side-saddle is reiterated in the dress code .
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Instead of simplifying life, relaxed business dress codes have become an expensive and troublesome burden.
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I have discovered a dress code among Labour party members.
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I knew the language, the dress codes , what the leisure weekend activites were.
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The dress code in the East Links clubhouse required only that entrants not wear spikes.
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Most public schools already have dress codes .
machine
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It can be programmed by machine code , by taking it through the motions, or by keyboard.
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This computer has no machine code instruction set or data formats in the ordinary sense.
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Assembler is less computer orientated than machine code .
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An assembler instruction will correspond to a frequently performed operation and represents many machine code instructions.
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Like machine code , assembler is computer specific.
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A statement to call a machine code subroutine.
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In order for this to work, the machine code program must be loaded into the same address each time.
morse
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Telegraph came to the village in 1901 and messages were sent by morse code .
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McAlister reached for his fork and tapped out a rhythm, a signal, a Morse code .
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For the richness of morse code is a borrowed richness.
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He was the Einstein of the hound kingdom-able to decipher morse code .
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As humans we can transmit messages to each other by speaking, writing, morse code , semaphore and smoke signals.
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Beacons, semaphore, morse code were all in their day rapid methods of sending information.
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Look at the Morse code chart and, using a torch, try to spell out your name.
name
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It was preceded by a scrupulous recce weeks before in a restaurant near his house with the code name Pomme d'Amour.
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The new system was as deep and mysterious as its chromatic code name implied.
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Medusa was the code name of a back-up disk suite product brought to market a year ago.
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Olenick picked the code name as a tribute to his commander, Col.
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The Triumph code name , by the way, has been changed.
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Chuck is short for Charlie, and Charlie is the old code name for a down-home white bigot.
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Fascination with code names went well beyond operations, reaching even the contra supporters and fund-raisers.
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Given the ironic code name Oxcart, the plane was the first to be built from titanium.
number
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In the latter case you would need to get a new tax code number from your employer.
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Each worker is given an income tax code number which is related to the total of his personal allowances.
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It shows their tax code number and details of their gross pay and tax deducted to date.
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As you select each colour from the palette, you are required to give it a code number or letter.
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The signals generated vary according to the code number .
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Generally, this coded message contains information about the item: its stock code number , size, colour etc.
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The sample often arrives at the point of analysis marked only with a code number .
operation
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The 7100 chip architecture itself features 32-bit instructions, 64 major operation codes and 140 machine instructions.
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Usually only a small number of different operation code field sizes are used, rather than a completely variable field size.
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Is the condition encoded in the operation code or in a subsidiary information field?
source
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The debuggers allow users to download and debug source code in real-time.
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Adobe has always been highly protective of its source code , turning down deals rather than share it.
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Application developers however, need to maintain only a single version of their source code for all systems.
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There is no evidence that the intruder gained access to the source code for Office or any Windows products.
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C programmers may be interested in the fact that WinPos comes with source code .
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ProActive will release new versions of its software to meet emerging requirements, but won't sell source code , says Sippl.
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The source code is to form the basis of an integrated set of financial and distribution management application modules for international usage.
switching
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Nevertheless, Bell is right in pointing out that style shift and code switching are closely related.
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The principal means whereby the two language varieties interact in conversation is through language alternation in the form of code switching .
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Where bilingual code switching is concerned, this is at its most obvious to the analyst.
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A great deal has been written about code switching , from various viewpoints: social, pragmatic, grammatical.
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Many studies have aimed at typologies of code switching which classify switches according to their function in discourse.
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In addition, there is dynamic interaction between the two varieties, mainly through code switching .
system
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Being realistic about it, a bar code system that would directly provide text string is not a very practical proposition.
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The charge code system is also described in Section 11.
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Analysis of other code systems has shown that the process of coding is time consuming and probably at least 20% inaccurate.
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He said a code system used by tobacco manufacturers prevented his department or smokers knowing which ingredients were in specific brands.
tax
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In the latter case you would need to get a new tax code number from your employer.
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One reason is that the tax codes of other countries encourage savings, while ours discourages it.
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Plenty of obstacles, from tax codes to bureaucrats, remain.
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They blamed not the Internal Revenue Service but the tax code .
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A substantial tax on marriage has been introduced into our tax code for many couples. 5.
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The commission did identify 60 areas where the tax code might be simplified.
word
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If it had a name, or a code word , well that sounds like civil servants playing games.
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Essentially, each code word is a separate, highly specialized entity.
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Suppose I forget the code word .
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Occasionally, the code word has to be changed because it has been compromised.
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Each employee has a code word , which the computer's voice recognition chip checks.
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Excellence becomes a code word for retreat from equity.
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Previously the code word for this was Trine and before that, during the early 1960s, Dinar.
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It was, the thinking went, a code word for lesbianism.
■ VERB
break
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They can be fined if they break the code .
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Mathematicians of the finest calibre were essential for what then seemed the almost impossible task of breaking a code with astronomical permutations.
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Mathematicians scribble equations on blackboards and program supercomputers to make the billions of calculations needed to break a tough code .
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It broke a code of silence.
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The Rabari are not so much hypocritical in their attitudes to breaking the Hindu code of vegetarianism as low-key.
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To break this is to break the code , so it is rarely given.
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In her acceptance she broke the code of propriety, went beyond the established manners in a light encounter.
crack
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But how are we to interpret the symbolism of other cultures; how can we crack their symbolic codes ?
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He cracked that code in a hurry!
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Once the team has cracked this bidding code , they should be able to subvert it.
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Cecil Phillips thrived on the cerebral challenge of cracking Soviet codes .
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Paul used his computer to crack the code and continued as before.
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What they must do to achieve that is crack the code that enables them to win the big match.
draw
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At a meeting in Paris on 11 June the Syndicat decided to draw up a code of conduct for its members.
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Employees are involved in drawing up a code of conduct for their team meetings.
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Officers have already drawn up a new code of standards for landlords.
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Jo Spence began by using the snapshots of her childhood to draw attention to the codes of domestic photography.
enter
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You should enter the codes specified for your printer in its manual. 10.
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Consumers can then enter this code online to earn themselves Beenz reward points.
follow
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With any kind of water play it's important to follow the safety code .
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His parents, he knew, had followed a simpler moral code .
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An example is shown in Appendix G. The data are followed by the code 99999 which signals the end of the package.
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Do customers-to-be really care whether you precisely follow a lengthy code of practice?
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The structure of the Guidelines follows that of the code itself.
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He displayed that strange other-worldliness that I have sometimes detected in other people who follow some strict religious code .
use
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Unfortunately, different manufacturers use different codes so there is no compatibility between different systems.
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Instead of using a one-byte code , it actually drew the letter, pixel by pixel.
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If you use the green code consistently the idea should be well rooted by the time they go to school.
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In fact, WordPerfect uses invisible codes for many of its functions.
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It will also use ObjectStore to recognise code , data and objects written in different programming languages.
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It also covers data held manually which can be identified using a code held on a computer.
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The earliest form of submarine cable telegraphy: manual simplex working using a cable code key.
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The second method uses the actual codes sent to the screen driver.
write
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I vaguely recall writing down the codes months ago and losing whatever it was I wrote them on.
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You might even use WordPerfect to write source codes of computer programs.
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The industry howls, then writes its own code to pre-empt any that could change its marketing practices.
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One reason I have written this code of ethics is that no one has to take short cuts ever.
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The 1987 State of World Population Report is written in code .
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Like Samuel Pepys before him, he writes it in code .
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As humans we can transmit messages to each other by speaking, writing , morse code , semaphore and smoke signals.
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A great deal has been written about code switching, from various viewpoints: social, pragmatic, grammatical.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
break a code
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It broke a code of silence.
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Mathematicians of the finest calibre were essential for what then seemed the almost impossible task of breaking a code with astronomical permutations.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A new code of practice governing the advertising of tobacco products is being introduced.
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a telegraphic code
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Building codes have been strengthened following the earthquake.
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Churches help to teach children a strong moral code .
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He will be dealt with under our code of discipline.
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Hobbs had blatantly ignored the legal profession's code of conduct.
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people who follow some strict religious code
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Some programmers write code for more than 12 hours straight.
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The code "ZZ35" on this cassette means it was imported from Europe.
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The code was used by the Japanese Navy during World War II.
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the income tax code
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And we proved it by cracking the manufacturers' secret codes.
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Ever since the World Health organisation approved an infant-formula marketing code in 1981, everyone else wants one too.
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It can even include invisible codes such as carriage returns, tab stops, indentations, and format changes.
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Management consultancy divisions of accounting firms tend to be strong on business advice and professional codes of conduct.
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Previously the code word for this was Trine and before that, during the early 1960s, Dinar.
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Rumors, false battle reports, meaningless codes, inflammatory speeches, orders to non-existent rebels.
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Two hundred code writers, broken down into teams, entered the project as if it were some underground cavern.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
data
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The system allows us to establish ranges of values for fields and then codes the data accordingly.
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The method of coding the data in this study was rather different from that used by Hughes and Cole.
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Now a data processing research institute is to study ways of coding such sensitive data.
information
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The genes code information for the formation of protein, the main constituent of our tissues and enzymes.
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One way of coding the information of two tapes on a single tape is to interleave the two.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Security badges are coded to show which buildings each person may enter.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And why is it coded with initials?
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Fig. 1 shows how an eight bit binary number can be bar coded using this system.
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It is not supposed to be obvious that the statement can be coded into arithmetic, but it can be.
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It was based on independent particles, each coding for a single attribute and each following its own path down the generations.
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Topological feature based methods detect and code straight lines and the orientation of strokes.