encode
verb (used with object)
to convert (a message, information, etc.) into code.
had encoded
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past perfectof encode.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Sphere-free cells were bright green, showing the mRNA had encoded proteins.
From Nature ● Dec. 3, 2019
By 1700, the tiny English sugar island of Barbados had a population of fifty thousand enslaved people, and the English had encoded the institution of chattel slavery into colonial law.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014
He had written it in Sanskrit, which was his mother tongue, and he had encoded the even lines in the private cipher of the Emperor Augustus and the odd ones in a Lacedemonian military code.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
