codify
English
Etymology
code + -ify
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: kŏdˈ -ĭ-fīˌ, kōˈ -dĭ-fīˌ; IPA(key): /ˈ kɑd.ɪˌfaɪ/, /ˈ koʊ.dɪˌfaɪ/
- Rhymes: -ɑdɪfaɪ, -oʊdɪfaɪ
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kōˈ -dĭ-fīˌ; IPA(key): /ˈ kəʊ.dɪˌfaɪ/
Audio (RP) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊdɪfaɪ
Verb
codify (third-person singular simple present codifies, present participle codifying, simple past and past participle codified)
- To reduce to a code, to arrange into a code.
- The company president codified the goal as a one-line mission statement.
- To collect and arrange in a systematic form.
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter V, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:
- The house of Ruthven was a small but ultra-modern limestone affair, between Madison and Fifth ; […]. As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “ near-aissance.”
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Synonyms
- inscripturate
- systematize
Derived terms
- codifiability
- codifiable
- codification
- codifier
- decodify
- miscodify
- noncodified
- recodification
- recodify
- uncodifiable
- unicodification
- uncodify
Related terms
- code
- codex
Translations
to reduce to a code
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