coder

See also: Coder

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English code

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzijos

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English coder

From code + -er.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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Noun

coder (plural coders)

1. A device that generates a code, often as a series of pulses.
2. A person who assigns codes or classifications.
   • 2007, Gerald J. Miller, Kaifeng Yang, Handbook of Research Methods in Public Administration, page 715:

     Others may be subjective ratings made by the coders who independently read the studies, such as sex stereotype of the job […]

3. (computing) A programmer (computer programmer).

   Synonym: code monkey (humorous or derogatory)

   Hyponyms: clean coder, vibe coder

   • 2016 May 7, Sara Ashley O'Brien, “Girls Who Code taps four teen girls for YouTube series”, in CNN Business‎^[1]:

     Part of the series' goal was to change how coders are perceived -- and show the community that it offers.

   • 2017 August 21, Haley Draznin, “Girls Who Code founder: Men build technologies to 'replace their mothers'”, in CNN Business‎^[2]:

     Reshma Saujani is not a coder but she's empowering "an army of young women" to take on tech's gender gap through her nonprofit Girls Who Code.

Derived terms

• barcoder
• codec
• democoder
• intercoder
• intracoder
• noncoder

Translations

device

• Esperanto: kodilo
• Polish: koder (pl) m
• Russian: ко́дер (ru) m (kóder)

programmer

• Esperanto: kodisto
• Finnish: koodari (fi)
• Italian: programmatore (it)
• Japanese: コーダー (kōdā), コーダ (kōda)
• Polish: koder (pl) m
• Russian: ко́дер (ru) m (kóder)
• Spanish: programador (es) m
• Swedish: kodare c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: lập trình viên (vi)

Further reading

• (one who assigns codes, for classification or otherwise): clinical coder, medical coding; encrypter

Anagrams

• OCRed, credo, cored, Dorce, decor, décor

French

Etymology

From code +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.de/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Verb

coder

1. to code; to encode

Conjugation

Conjugation of coder (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	coder
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	codant /kɔ.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		codé /kɔ.de/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	code /kɔd/	codes /kɔd/	code /kɔd/	codons /kɔ.dɔ̃/	codez /kɔ.de/	codent /kɔd/
	imperfect	codais /kɔ.dɛ/	codais /kɔ.dɛ/	codait /kɔ.dɛ/	codions /kɔ.djɔ̃/	codiez /kɔ.dje/	codaient /kɔ.dɛ/
	past historic2	codai /kɔ.de/	codas /kɔ.da/	coda /kɔ.da/	codâmes /kɔ.dam/	codâtes /kɔ.dat/	codèrent /kɔ.dɛʁ/
	future	coderai /kɔ.dʁe/	coderas /kɔ.dʁa/	codera /kɔ.dʁa/	coderons /kɔ.dʁɔ̃/	coderez /kɔ.dʁe/	coderont /kɔ.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	coderais /kɔ.dʁɛ/	coderais /kɔ.dʁɛ/	coderait /kɔ.dʁɛ/	coderions /kɔ.də.ʁjɔ̃/	coderiez /kɔ.də.ʁje/	coderaient /kɔ.dʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	code /kɔd/	codes /kɔd/	code /kɔd/	codions /kɔ.djɔ̃/	codiez /kɔ.dje/	codent /kɔd/
	imperfect2	codasse /kɔ.das/	codasses /kɔ.das/	codât /kɔ.da/	codassions /kɔ.da.sjɔ̃/	codassiez /kɔ.da.sje/	codassent /kɔ.das/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	code /kɔd/	—	codons /kɔ.dɔ̃/	codez /kɔ.de/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

See also

• chiffrer
• crypter
• décoder

Further reading

• “coder”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Anagrams

• corde, cordé, crédo, décor