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decode

[ dee-kohd ]

verb (used with object)

, de·cod·ed, de·cod·ing.
  1. to translate (data or a message) from a code into the original language or form.
  2. to extract meaning from (spoken or written symbols).
  3. Television. to unscramble (an electronic signal) so as to provide a video picture for cable subscribers.


verb (used without object)

, de·cod·ed, de·cod·ing.
  1. to work at decoding.

decode

/ diːˈkəʊd /

verb

  1. to convert (a message, text, etc) from code into ordinary language
  2. computing to convert (coded characters) from one form to another, as from binary-coded decimals to decimal numbers Compare encode
  3. electronics to convert (a coded electrical signal) into normal analogue components
  4. to analyse and understand the construction of words and phrases, esp in a foreign language
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • deˈcoder, noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of decode1

First recorded in 1895–1900; de- + code
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Example Sentences

Meet Mo-DBRS, a setup that could fundamentally change how we decode the human brain.

Frequently, this delay is inherent to how TVs and soundbars decode audio.

When that signal is sent to your TV or soundbar, the device has to decode the audio in order to play it over your speakers, and that process takes time.

As long as you can decode the informational algorithms behind the organisms and their heritable material, you can incorporate those into your own kind of substrates.

The first series follows the work of scientists trying to decode extraterrestrial messages using high-end technology developed by- yes you guessed it – General Electric.

The next one will be to teach cells to decode the information.

This track is so confusing and multi-layered, it would take a team of Mensa members with Ph.D.s in Ebonics to decode.

But she arguably did more than anyone to decode what was then the oldest written European language known to exist.

He softened the rhetoric here and there, but if you decode his substantive words, he said nothing new.

Hyde Park is partly in Paddington, a name which the authorities decode into “town of the children of Paeda”.

Afraid for a moment that you'd be off before we could decode it.

Also, he was hungry, and he did not hurry over his dinner in order to decode it.

She sets herself wearily to decode some sort of definite meaning out of Mother's elliptic style.

The Secretary, whose business it was to decode the official telegrams, commenced his task with but languid interest.

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