encode

[ en-kohd ]

verb (used with object)

, en·cod·ed, en·cod·ing.

1. to convert (a message, information, etc.) into code.

encode

/ ɪnˈkəʊd /

verb

1. to convert (a message) from plain text into code
2. See decode
   computing to convert (characters and symbols) into a digital form as a series of impulses Compare decode
3. to convert (an electrical signal) into a form suitable for transmission
4. to convert (a nerve signal) into a form that can be received by the brain
5. to use (a word, phrase, etc, esp of a foreign language) in the construction appropriate to it in that language

encode

/ ĕn-kōd′ /

1. To specify the genetic code for the synthesis of a protein molecule or a part of a protein molecule.

Derived Forms

• enˈcodement, noun
• enˈcoder, noun

Other Words From

• en·coda·ble adjective
• en·codement noun
• en·coder noun
• misen·code verb (used with object) misencoded misencoding

Word History and Origins

Origin of encode¹

First recorded in 1930–35; en- ¹ + code

Example Sentences

We start from the digital information of what the virus encodes for and go on from there.

From Freakonomics

It encoded motion and mathematics into a single, glinting geometric object.

From Quanta Magazine

The hippocampus is most famous for its ability to encode episodic memories—the memory of whats, whens, wheres, and whos.

From Singularity Hub 

Modern deep learning is at the very least biologically-inspired, encoding information in the strength of connections between large networks of individual computing units known as neurons.

From Singularity Hub 

Experiments even showed that people were more likely to forget words that were presented exactly at systole than words that they saw and encoded during the rest of the cardiac cycle.

From Quanta Magazine

Shun distractions, in other words, and you should encode events more effectively.

From The Daily Beast

To encode a message which may be your last words on earth is not the easiest of tasks.

From Project Gutenberg

Writing helped to encode his logic of proper inference from premises expressed in sentences.

From Project Gutenberg

But once the scale changes, it is doubtful that we could encode the resulting complexity in such formalizations.

From Project Gutenberg