Codify

Definition: Codify

Codify

Verb

1. Organize into a code or system, such as a body of law; "Hamurabi codified the laws".

Date "codify" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1980. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Legality	Verb: legalize; enact, ordain; decree; (order); pass a law, enact a regulation; legislate; codify, formulate; regulate.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Codify

English words defined with "codify": Codifying. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Explanation of H.R. 2716, to revise, codify, and enact Title 8, United States Code, "Aliens and Nationality." (reference) Joint Resolution to Amend Public Law 623, Entitled Joint Resolution to Codify and Emphasize Existing (reference) (more book examples)
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Play	Caption
	Morse code; beep; codify; cryptic; attack signal; military.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Dominican Rep	Pending legislation would codify many of the reforms made to date, and increase the DR's openness to foreign financial institutions. (references)
	Russia	In late 2000, draft legislation to codify areas in which foreign investment would be prohibited or restricted was rejected by the Duma, and it is unclear if such legislation will be reconsidered anytime soon. (references)
Political Economy	RUSSIA	The law does codify the principle of national treatment for foreign investors, including the rights to purchase securities, to transfer property rights, to protect rights in Russian courts, to repatriate funds abroad after payment of duties, and to receive compensation for nationalizations or illegal acts of Russian government bodies. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Codify" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 76.67% of the time. "Codify" is used about 30 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	76.67%	23	72,767
Lexical Verb (base form)	23.33%	7	133,076
Total	100.00%	30	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "codify"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kodifikoj. (various references)

Arabic		‏نظم (adjust, arrange, array, bed, cast, code, collocate, compose, construct, control, dispose, fix, form, groom, lay, line, marshal, mastermind, measure, order, organize, plan, poetize, put in order, put things straight, reform, regiment, regulate, regulation, right, seed, settle, shape, shuffle, sort, spruce up, stage, streamline, systematize, verse), ‏جمع القوانين و ينسقها. (various references)

Bulgarian		шифровам (code). (various references)

Chinese		编成法典 (Codified, Codifying). (various references)

Czech		kodifikovat. (various references)

Farsi		قانون وضع کردن (Legislate), تدوین کردن , بصورت رمزدراوردن (Code, Cryptograph). (various references)

French		codifier (code). (various references)

German		verschlüsseln (cipher, code, encipher, encode, scramble, to cipher, to encipher, to encode, to encrypt), kodifizieren, kodieren (code, encode, to code, to encode). (various references)

Greek		κωδικοποιώ (to code, to encode). (various references)

Hungarian		törvénybe iktat (ratify, to enact), becikkelyez (to ratify). (various references)

Italian		codificare (code, encode). (various references)

Manx		cur ayns coad (code). (various references)

Pig Latin		odifycay

Portuguese		codificar (code, encode), sistematizar (systematize). (various references)

Romanian		codifica (cipher, code, encipher, encode), cifra (cipher, code). (various references)

Russian		составлять кодекс, приводить в систему (methodize). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		šifrovati (code, encipher, scramble). (various references)

Spanish		codificar (encipher, encode). (various references)

Swedish		kodifiera (code). (various references)

Thai		จั�"ให้เป็นระบบ. (various references)

Turkish		sistemleştirmek (methodize, systematize), kodlamak (code, encipher, encode), şifrelemek (cipher, code, encipher, encode). (various references)

Ukrainian		систематизувати (arrange, methodize, systematize), шифрувати (cipher, cypher, encode), кодифікувати (code). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "codify": codifying. (additional references)
	Words ending with "codify": recodify. (additional references)
	Words containing "codify": recodifying. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Codify" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bodifit, bodify, cdif, codi, corify, Culdaff, Kiduff. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "codify" (pronounced kō"dufī')
4	-d u f ī'	acidify, edify, modify, solidify.
3	-u f ī'	amplify, beautify, calcify, certify, clarify, classify, crucify, decertify, declassify, deify, demystify, detoxify, dignify, disqualify, diversify, electrify, exemplify, falsify, fortify, gentrify, glorify, gratify, horrify, identify, indemnify, intensify, justify, liquefy, magnify, misidentify, mollify, mortify, mummify, mystify, notify, nullify, ossify, oversimplify, pacify, personify, petrify, purify, qualify, quantify, ramify, ratify, reclassify, rectify, requalify, reunify, signify, simplify, specify, stratify, stultify, terrify, testify, typify, unify, verify, vilify.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-f-i-o-y"
	-2 letters: coif, fico, fido, foci, odic.
	-3 letters: cod, coy, doc, fid, foy, icy, yid, yod.
	-4 letters: do, id, if, od, of, oy, yo.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-f-i-o-y"
	+2 letters: recodify.
	+3 letters: codifying, commodify.
	+5 letters: cockneyfied, confidently, confidingly, confirmedly, countryfied, dysfunction, recodifying.
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