The difference between Code and Lect

When used as nouns, code means a short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents, whereas lect means a specific form of a language or language cluster: a language or a dialect.

Code is also verb with the meaning: to write software programs.

check bellow for the other definitions of Code and Lect

  1. Code as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "This flavour of soup has been assigned the code WRT-9."

  2. Code as a noun:

    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.

  3. Code as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "The medical code is a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians."

    "The naval code is a system of rules for making communications at sea by means of signals."

  4. Code as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "The [[ASCII]] code of "A" is 65."

  5. Code as a noun:

    A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.

  6. Code as a noun (cryptography):

    A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.

  7. Code as a noun (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.

    Examples:

    "Object-oriented C++ code is easier to understand for a human than C code."

    "I wrote some code to reformat text documents."

    "This [[HTML]] code may be placed on your [[web page]]."

  8. Code as a noun (scientific programming):

    A program.

  9. Code as a noun (linguistics):

    A particular lect or language variety.

  1. Code as a verb (computing):

    To write software programs.

    Examples:

    "I learned to code on an early home computer in the 1980s."

  2. Code as a verb:

    To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.

  3. Code as a verb (cryptography):

    To encode.

    Examples:

    "We should code the messages we send out on Usenet."

  4. Code as a verb (genetics, intransitive):

    To encode a protein.

  5. Code as a verb (medicine):

    To call a hospital emergency code.

    Examples:

    "coding in the CT scanner"

  1. Code as a verb (medicine):

    Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency such as cardiac arrest.

  1. Lect as a noun (linguistics, sociolinguistics):

    A specific form of a language or language cluster: a language or a dialect.

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