<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>plural: anthologies</li><li>a book or other collection of selected writings by various authors, usually in the same literary form, of the same period, or on the same subject:<ul><li>an anthology of Elizabethan drama;</li><li>an anthology of modern philosophy.</li></ul></li><li>a collection of selected writings by one author.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object)<ul><li>coded, coding.</li><li>to translate (a message) into a code; encode.</li><li>to categorize or identify by assigning a code to: All specimens were coded prior to the test.</li><li>to arrange or enter (laws or statutes) in a code.</li><li>Computers. to write code for (a computer program or application) (often followed by up): Hire a programmer to code up a website for you.</li></ul></li><li>(used without object)<ul><li>coded, coding.</li><li>Genetics. to specify the amino acid sequence of a protein by the sequence of nucleotides comprising the gene for that protein: a gene that codes for the production of insulin.</li><li>Computers. to write computer code.</li></ul></li></ul>