code name

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++ˈcode name noun [countable] SECRETa name that is used to keep someone’s or something’s real name a secret 〔保密用的〕代号 —code-name verb [transitive] a crime busting operation code-named Jeeves 代号为“吉夫斯”的打击犯罪行动

Examples from the Corpus

code name• The new system was as deep and mysterious as its chromatic code name implied.• He decided to give the various systems code names based on the colors of the spectrum.• Medusa was the code name of a back-up disk suite product brought to market a year ago.• It was preceded by a scrupulous recce weeks before in a restaurant near his house with the code name Pomme d'Amour.• The Triumph code name, by the way, has been changed.• Fascination with code names went well beyond operations, reaching even the contra supporters and fund-raisers.

ˈcode name nounChineseSyllable

someone’s name to real that a something’s used is keep Corpus or

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