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Meanings of decode in English

Portuguese
decifrar
Catalan
desxifrar

Convert code into ordinary language.

decifrar
Usage of decode in English
1
The beetles' chemical language has proved too complex for Bianca to decode.
Children of Time
2
Instead, audiences decode them according to their social experiences and political contexts.
The Guardian
3
The line was encrypted at a level even Echelon could not decode.
The accident man
4
It can't decode beyond the internet, so the body is the same.
Radio NZ
5
My stories were only some of many she has had to decode.
Unbearable lightness: a story of loss and gain
6
If I die tomorrow no one will be able to decode it.
The Guardian
7
Sarah Flannery, 16, devised a faster way to decode information moving between computers.
The Irish Times
8
And the signals, of course, took hours to receive and decode.
The half-made world
9
Nonetheless, Semiotecs can occasionally decode stolen data by means of a temporary bridge.
Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel
10
They've found it's possible for snoopers to decode messages by tricking intended recipients.
The Irish Times
11
It was a banking crisis that only the insiders could decode.
The Guardian
12
All avout were supposed to be able to decode the changes.
Anathem
13
Vicente was able to decode the strange arrangement of the bodies.
The black minutes
14
This was something else- amessagefrom his subconscious he wasn't able to decode.
The accident man
15
Numbers are flashing on television screens all day; graphs that nobody can decode.
The Irish Times
16
You'd have to memorize the owner's manual to decode all the possible readouts.
Wired
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Translations for decode
Catalan
desxifrar
Decode through the time
Decode across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common