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codify

/ˈkəʊ.dɪˌfaɪ/US/ˈkɑ.dɪˌfaɪ/

codify verb: to reduce to a code, to arrange into a code.

Verb

codify (third-person singular simple present codifies, present participle codifying, simple past and past participle codified)

  1. To reduce to a code, to arrange into a code.
    • The company president codified the goal as a one-line mission statement.
  2. To collect and arrange in a systematic form.
    • 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...1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter V, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC
  3. To enact as an official rule or law.

codify meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

codify in Tamil

ஒழுங்குபடுத்து, தொகுத்தளி

codify in Urdu

تدوین کرنا, تلخیص کرنا

codify in Bengali

আইন, নিয়মকে সংগঠিত করা

codify in Malayalam

ക്രോഡീകരിക്കുക, ക്രമീകരിക്കുക, അടുക്കുക, പട്ടികയാക്കുക
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codify in Vietnamese
pháp điển hóa

Examples of codify in a sentence

  • Karadžić based the codified norm on a common dialect, paradoxically stemming from Herzegovina.
  • Genachowski proposed codifying the new principles with four existing principles issued several years ago by the F.C.C.
  • This was later codified in a more formal W3C document, The Rule of Least Power.

All 15 example sentences with codify

Synonyms of codify

Forms of codify

third-person singular presentcodifies
present participlecodifying
past participlecodified
pastcodified

Past tense of codify: codified

Origin of codify

From code + -ify.

Words formed from codify

Questions about codify

What does codify mean?
Codify means to reduce to a code, to arrange into a code.
What is codify in Tamil?
Codify in Tamil is ஒழுங்குபடுத்து, தொகுத்தளி. See Codify meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is codify?
Codify is a verb.
How do you pronounce codify?
Codify is pronounced /ˈkəʊ.dɪˌfaɪ/ (UK).
What is the past tense of codify?
The past tense of codify is codified.

Words near codify in the dictionary

  1. codifications
  2. codified
  3. codifier
  4. codifiers
  5. codifies
  6. codify
  7. codifying
  8. codifyings
  9. codigest
  10. codigested
  11. codigestion

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Adapted from Wiktionary: codify (page history and authors); codify (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); codify (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); codify (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); codify (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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