Standard Lemma guide

coding

adj · noun · verb · 10 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • General-American: /koʊdɪŋ/
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  • Received-Pronunciation: /kəʊdɪŋ/
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  • CMU ARPABET: K OW1 D IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Applied to vehicles when they are under number coding.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Philippines, not-comparable

Examples

  • My car is coding today, so I cannot drive.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The process of encoding or decoding.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

An encoding.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

The process of writing computer software code.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • I spent all night on the coding, but the program was ready by morning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: computer programming

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

A method of communicating important medical information discreetly and quickly between medical professionals and responders.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: emergency-medicine, medicine, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

An alternative therapy used to treat addictions by convincing the patient (through hypnosis, placebos, etc.) that the substance will harm or kill them if they use it again.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

A 1-uniform morphism; an injective morphism; a morphism that maps letter to letter

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: mathematics, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

Ellipsis of number coding.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, numeral, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

verb

Meaning 9

present participle and gerund of code

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

noun

Meaning 10

act of writing in code or cipher

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: cryptography, secret writing, steganography

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: writing, committal to writing

Narrower terms: encoding, encryption, recoding, decoding, decryption, decipherment

History

Etymology

From code + -ing.

Across languages

Translations

22 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Azerbaijani: kodlaşdırma — process of encoding or decoding
  • Bulgarian: коди́ране (kodírane) — process of encoding or decoding
  • Finnish: koodaus — process of encoding or decoding
  • German: Programmierung — process of encoding or decoding
  • Italian: codifica — process of encoding or decoding
  • Northern Kurdish: kodkarî — process of encoding or decoding
  • Northern Kurdish: kodkirin — process of encoding or decoding
  • Polish: kodowanie — process of encoding or decoding
  • Portuguese: codificação — process of encoding or decoding
  • Romanian: codare-decodare — process of encoding or decoding
  • Romanian: codificare-decodificare — process of encoding or decoding
  • Azerbaijani: kodlaşdırma — process of writing computer software code
  • Bulgarian: коди́ране (kodírane) — process of writing computer software code
  • Bulgarian: програми́ране (programírane) — process of writing computer software code
  • Finnish: koodaus — process of writing computer software code
  • Italian: programmazione — process of writing computer software code
  • Northern Kurdish: kodkarî — process of writing computer software code
  • Northern Kurdish: kodnivîsîn — process of writing computer software code
  • Polish: programowanie — process of writing computer software code
  • Portuguese: programação — process of writing computer software code
  • French: morphisme de codage — type of morphism
  • Polish: kodowanie — type of morphism
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