The difference between Code and Software

When used as nouns, code means a short symbol, often with little relation to the item it represents, whereas software means encoded computer instructions, usually modifiable (unless stored in some form of unalterable memory such as rom).

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

check bellow for the other definitions of Code and Software

  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. Software as a noun (computing):

    Encoded computer instructions, usually modifiable (unless stored in some form of unalterable memory such as ROM).

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