Codify
verb
To arrange rules, laws, etc. in a systematic way.
The tax regulations need to be codified for easier understanding.
Often appears as...
- codify laws
- codify regulations
verb
To put something into a form that can be easily organized and understood.
The study data was codified into a manageable format.
Often appears as...
- codify data
- codify information
verb
To arrange rules, laws, etc. in a systematic way.
The tax regulations need to be codified for easier understanding.
Often appears as...
- codify laws
- codify regulations
verb
To put something into a form that can be easily organized and understood.
The study data was codified into a manageable format.
Often appears as...
- codify data
- codify information
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Legal Context
Codify is often used in legal, administrative, and governmental contexts for systematic rule setting.
The legislative body worked to codify new environmental standards.
Pro Tip 2/3Writing Clarity
Use 'codify' to express the need to make complex information clear and organized in writing.
The guidelines were difficult to follow until they were codified.
Pro Tip 3/3Implying Establishment
Using 'codify' suggests formalizing unwritten norms or practices into official rules.
The unwritten dress code in the office was finally codified.
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The case for anonymity...
There are thousands of memes that come out of the site. There are a handful that have escaped into the mainstream, the ones I've just shown you, but every day, every month, people are producing thousands of these. So does a site like this have rules? We do; they're the codified rules that I've come up with,
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Sending Humans to Mars:...
So if you increase the amount of sunlight with mirrors, or whatever, you can sublimate, get more water vapor in the atmosphere, more rain. But what's going to happen? It's going to react with the rocks and go back down into the subsurface eventually. There's a famous reaction that was codified
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The secret US prisons...
His attorneys quickly secured his release, but the message was very Don't talk about this place. Today, nine years after they were opened by the Bush administration, the government is codifying how and why CMUs were created. According to the Bureau of Prisons,
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A Saudi woman who dared...
verbal or written all the lives world minors until the day we die and it becomes worse when it's enshrined in religious fete was based on wrong interpretation of the Sharia law or the religious laws what's worst when they become codified as laws in the system
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How I'm Working for...
Because what is taught on the Sabbath leaks into our politics, our health policy, violence around the world. It leaks into education, military, fiscal decision-making. These laws get legally and culturally codified.
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What makes life worth...
were not as daunting as they once seemed. I realized that completing an advance directive is an act of love -- like a wedding vow. A pact to take care of someone, codifying the promise
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A life of purpose PIPE Rick...
And so, you need to understand what your worldview is. The problem is most people never really think it through. They never really codify it or qualify it or quantify it,
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The origins of ballet -...
As director, he appointed his personal ballet master and frequent performance partner Pierre Beauchamp, who codified the five main positions of the body still used today.
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How great leaders...
the complete opposite to everyone else all I did was codify it and it's probably the world's simplest idea I call it the Golden Circle
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How great leaders...
All I did was codify it, and it's probably the world's simplest idea. I call it the golden circle.
Video examples
The case for anonymity...
There are thousands of memes that come out of the site. There are a handful that have escaped into the mainstream, the ones I've just shown you, but every day, every month, people are producing thousands of these. So does a site like this have rules? We do; they're the codified rules that I've come up with,
Video examples
Sending Humans to Mars:...
So if you increase the amount of sunlight with mirrors, or whatever, you can sublimate, get more water vapor in the atmosphere, more rain. But what's going to happen? It's going to react with the rocks and go back down into the subsurface eventually. There's a famous reaction that was codified
Video examples
The secret US prisons...
His attorneys quickly secured his release, but the message was very Don't talk about this place. Today, nine years after they were opened by the Bush administration, the government is codifying how and why CMUs were created. According to the Bureau of Prisons,
Video examples
A Saudi woman who dared...
verbal or written all the lives world minors until the day we die and it becomes worse when it's enshrined in religious fete was based on wrong interpretation of the Sharia law or the religious laws what's worst when they become codified as laws in the system
Video examples
How I'm Working for...
Because what is taught on the Sabbath leaks into our politics, our health policy, violence around the world. It leaks into education, military, fiscal decision-making. These laws get legally and culturally codified.
Video examples
What makes life worth...
were not as daunting as they once seemed. I realized that completing an advance directive is an act of love -- like a wedding vow. A pact to take care of someone, codifying the promise
Video examples
A life of purpose PIPE Rick...
And so, you need to understand what your worldview is. The problem is most people never really think it through. They never really codify it or qualify it or quantify it,
Video examples
The origins of ballet -...
As director, he appointed his personal ballet master and frequent performance partner Pierre Beauchamp, who codified the five main positions of the body still used today.
Video examples
How great leaders...
the complete opposite to everyone else all I did was codify it and it's probably the world's simplest idea I call it the Golden Circle
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How great leaders...
All I did was codify it, and it's probably the world's simplest idea. I call it the golden circle.
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Quote examples
Andy Beshear
American Politician
My comprehensive health care plan will lower costs, strengthen Medicaid, and codify protections for people with pre-existing conditions into state law. That will lift up all working families. But our veterans face unique challenges and they deserve a governor who will deliver them specific solutions to expand access and increase options.
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Shelby Steele
American Author
Deference has been codified in American life as political correctness. And political correctness functions like a despotic regime. It is an oppressiveness that spreads its edicts further and further into the crevices of everyday life.
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Jordan Peterson
Canadian Psychologist
You can't just slander someone, defame them, lie about them. You can't incite people to crime. There's all sorts of reasonable restrictions on free speech that are already codified in the British common-law system.
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Heather Brooke
American Journalist
We need to codify our values and build consensus around what we want from a free society and a free Internet. We need to put into law protections for our privacy and our right to speak and assemble.
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Sarah McBride
American Activist
Efforts to bar transgender people from restrooms are nothing more than an attempt to codify discrimination before our country advances any further on transgender equality.
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David Chang
American Chef
I find that there are a lot of similarities between French and Japanese food. I think they're two countries that have really systemized their cuisine and codified it.
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Jeannette Rankin
American Politician
There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.
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Hanya Yanagihara
American Novelist
Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party.
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Gad Saad
Canadian Scientist
The right to be able to speak openly and confidentially to another is, at times, codified legally if not ethically.
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Jean Paul Gaultier
French Designer
People are so codified - it's sad.
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Andy Beshear
American Politician
My comprehensive health care plan will lower costs, strengthen Medicaid, and codify protections for people with pre-existing conditions into state law. That will lift up all working families. But our veterans face unique challenges and they deserve a governor who will deliver them specific solutions to expand access and increase options.
Quote examples
Shelby Steele
American Author
Deference has been codified in American life as political correctness. And political correctness functions like a despotic regime. It is an oppressiveness that spreads its edicts further and further into the crevices of everyday life.
Quote examples
Jordan Peterson
Canadian Psychologist
You can't just slander someone, defame them, lie about them. You can't incite people to crime. There's all sorts of reasonable restrictions on free speech that are already codified in the British common-law system.
Quote examples
Heather Brooke
American Journalist
We need to codify our values and build consensus around what we want from a free society and a free Internet. We need to put into law protections for our privacy and our right to speak and assemble.
Quote examples
Sarah McBride
American Activist
Efforts to bar transgender people from restrooms are nothing more than an attempt to codify discrimination before our country advances any further on transgender equality.
Quote examples
David Chang
American Chef
I find that there are a lot of similarities between French and Japanese food. I think they're two countries that have really systemized their cuisine and codified it.
Quote examples
Jeannette Rankin
American Politician
There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.
Quote examples
Hanya Yanagihara
American Novelist
Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party.
Quote examples
Gad Saad
Canadian Scientist
The right to be able to speak openly and confidentially to another is, at times, codified legally if not ethically.
Quote examples
Jean Paul Gaultier
French Designer
People are so codified - it's sad.
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