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For CODE, below is one of 72 sentences:
A good programmer makes her code look so simple and comprehensible that any other programmer can understand it and appreciate it.

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 Meanings and Examples of CODE
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code
 n.  body of law; system of rules or regulations relating to one subject; system of symbols, letters, or words
Classic Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  Mammy was black, but her code of conduct and her sense of pride were as high as or higher than those of her owners.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  But after all, according to the Continental code of etiquette, it's very bad form for husband and wife to love each other.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
3  These women, so swift to kindness, so tender to the sorrowing, so untiring in times of stress, could be as implacable as furies to any renegade who broke one small law of their unwritten code.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
4  Between them, Scarlett and Rhett had outraged every tenet of this code.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
5  Perhaps the only formal whaling code authorized by legislative enactment, was that of Holland.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 89. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish.
6  But what plays the mischief with this masterly code is the admirable brevity of it, which necessitates a vast volume of commentaries to expound it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 89. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish.
7  The word came by long-distance telephone in a cipher code, just a little while before each race; and any man who could get the secret had as good as a fortune.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
8  I confess that neither the structure of languages, nor the code of governments, nor the politics of various states possessed attractions for me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
9  Jordan Baker instinctively avoided clever shrewd men and now I saw that this was because she felt safer on a plane where any divergence from a code would be thought impossible.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
10  This personage prefigured and represented in his aspect the whole dismal severity of the Puritanic code of law, which it was his business to administer in its final and closest application to the offender.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
11  In truth, nothing short of a total change of dynasty and moral code, in that interior kingdom, was adequate to account for the impulses now communicated to the unfortunate and startled minister.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XX.THE MINISTER IN A MAZE
12  It was clearly and precisely defined in the code of principles by which he was guided.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 20
13  And he felt that this fact and what she expected of him called for something not fully defined in that code of principles by which he had hitherto steered his course in life.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 20
14  This case, provided for by a special code, was punished by an addition of five years, two of them in the double chain.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
15  They are called fathers and mothers by the civil code, which is puerile and honest.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—A MERRY END TO MIRTH
Example Sentence: (43 in 3 pages)
16  It will need different microchips to reconvert the digital code back into normal TV signals.
17  The tribunal is unique because Mr Jones is not subject to the normal police discipline code.
18  All members of the association adhere to a strict code of practice.
19  The Textile Services Association has drawn up a code of practice endorsed by the Office of Fair Trading.
20  The new code will baffle the enemy agents.
21  Public employee unions are demanding in blunt terms that Democrats make the tax code more progressive.
22  Do you know the postal code of this postal district?
23  Lacking his code book, the spy was unable to decipher the scrambled message sent to him from the KGB.
24  Scientists are hoping that the complete code of Chromosome 21 will allow them to pinpoint the individual genes responsible for each Downs Syndrome disease.
25  In truth there was no such code; chivalry as a set of ideals and duties changed throughout the Middle Ages to meet new socio-economic realities.
26  Lacking his code book, the spy was unable to decode the message sent to him in cipher.
27  You see, empathy is a code word for favoring criminal defendants, plaintiffs, labor and other groups which happen to match up with the liberal policy agenda.
28  We need to take the varying rules and regulations of the different health agencies and codify them into a national health code.
29  A good programmer makes her code look so simple and comprehensible that any other programmer can understand it and appreciate it.
30  The e-mails contain a code word to receive discount.