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precode

precode adjective: prior to the introduction of the Hays Code, a set of moral guidelines for the US film industry widely applied between 1930 and 1968. Also the alternative spelling of pre-Code.

Adjective

precode (not comparable)

  1. Prior to the introduction of the Hays Code, a set of moral guidelines for the US film industry widely applied between 1930 and 1968.
    • The other precode film in the retrospective, Frank Capra’s “Bitter Tea of General Yen” (also 1933), isn’t quite so junkily entertaining.2007 April 22, Terrence Rafferty, “The Infinite Variety of the Lady Stanwyck”, in New York Times

Verb

precode (third-person singular simple present precodes, present participle precoding, simple past and past participle precoded)

  1. To code in advance

Also used as

precode is also the alternative spelling of pre-Code.

Forms of precode

third-person singular presentprecodes
present participleprecoding
past participleprecoded
pastprecoded

Words formed from precode

Questions about precode

What does precode mean?
Precode means prior to the introduction of the Hays Code, a set of moral guidelines for the US film industry widely applied between 1930 and 1968.
What part of speech is precode?
Precode can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near precode in the dictionary

  1. precociously
  2. precociousness
  3. precocities
  4. precocity
  5. precocked
  6. precode
  7. precoded
  8. precoder
  9. precoders
  10. precodes
  11. precoding

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