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Meanings of decipherer in English

The kind of intellectual who converts messages from a code to plain text.

Synonyms
Examples for "decoder"
Examples for "decoder"
1
At the receiving end, a decoder reassembles the data into something coherent.
Wired
2
Make sure that the docking station is placed next to the decoder.
The South African
3
My identity card slots into the decoder and the steel door opens.
The Quiet Earth
4
Perhaps this is some decoder thing I'm supposed to figure out?
Wired
5
A bell signal from the electronic brain brought them rushing to the decoder.
Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X
Usage of decipherer in English
1
Dr. Clarke, the Dean, Dr. Willes, the decipherer, and Dr. Gilbert of Llandaff, are candidates to succeed him.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
2
Phillipps was the decipherer who had, he knew, been employed to interpret Queen Mary's letters after the Norfolk plot.
Unknown to History: A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland
3
Sometimes I have thought, that, obscure and chaotic as they are, they owe their present form to me, their decipherer.
The Last Man
4
Heinrich Brugsch, my second teacher, was far superior to Lepsius as a decipherer and investigator of the various stages of the ancient Egyptian languages.
The Story of My Life — Volume 06
5
Perhaps professional decipherers-archaeologistsand cryptologists-woulddo better.
Existence
6
The decipherers, father and son, shut themselves up directly, and set to work with all imaginable zeal.
Tales and Novels — Volume 07 / Patronage [part 1]
7
Telegrams, however, were going out and coming in all day; a whole array of cipherers and decipherers lived in different rookeries in London.
The Summons
8
"I grant," said I, "that these hieroglyphics might well puzzle a more practised decipherer than myself.
Across the Zodiac / The Story of a Wrecked Record
9
He was the first of a second generation who, following Rawlinson and Oppert, decipherers as well as explorers, were able to read as they found.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 14: The New Era / A Supplementa...
Frequent collocations
Decipherer through the time