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decode

/dɪˈkəʊd/

decode verb: to convert from an encrypted form to plain text.

Verb

decode (third-person singular simple present decodes, present participle decoding, simple past and past participle decoded)

  1. To convert from an encrypted form to plain text.
    • The cryptographer decoded the secret message and sent the result to the officer.
    Synonyms:
    decipher, decrypt, uncode
    Antonyms:
    encode, encrypt
  2. To figure out something difficult to interpret.
    • I finally managed to decode the nearly illegible doctor's prescription.

Noun

decode (plural decodes)

  1. A product of decoding
    • If and when the remaining Allied intercepts and decodes are opened up, we may expect to learn a great deal more about the later stages of the Holocaust.2004, David Cesarani, Holocaust: Responses to the Persecution and Mass Murder of the Jews, page 148
    • The British picked up a decode in November 1942 indicating that guards at Auschwitz would need six hundred gas masks.2005, Richard Breitman, U.S. Intelligence And The Nazis, page 31
  2. Output from a program or device used to interpret communication protocols
    • This version includes more than 400 decodes that cover everything from legacy decodes to popular decodes and new or updated decodes for such protocols as voice over IP H.323, Server Message Block, Border Gateway Protocol Version 4, and Internet Inter-ORB Protocol1999, Laura Wonnacott, “Sniffer Pro sees some switches”, in Info World, page 37

decode meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

decode in Tamil

குறி நீக்கு, குறிவிலக்கு, குறிமுறை அவிழ், குறியவிழ், பூட்டவிழ்

decode in Bengali

সংকেত উদ্ধার করা

decode in Malayalam

decrypt, decipher, work out
ഗൂഢാക്ഷരവ്യാഖ്യാനം ചെയ്ക, നിർദ്ധരിക്കുക, രഹസ്യഭാഷയിലുള്ളതിനെവ്യാഖ്യാനിക്കുക, ഗൂഢാർത്ഥം വ്യഖ്യാനിക്കുക, ദുരൂഹമായതിന്റെ അർത്ഥം കണ്ടെത്തുക, വിവർത്തനം ചെയ്യുക

decode in Kannada

ಸಂಕೇತ ಬಿಡಿಸು
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decode in Arabic
فك تشفير

Examples of decode in a sentence

  • During the war, his grandmother had worked at the Bletchley Park decoding station as a calculator.
  • The scrambling of the message made it harder to decode.
  • We’ve seen him flirt with the dot-connectors by throwing out something cryptic for the internet to decode.

All 34 example sentences with decode

Synonyms of decode

Antonyms

All synonyms and antonyms of decode

Forms of decode

Verb
third-person singular presentdecodes
present participledecoding
past participledecoded
pastdecoded
Noun
pluraldecodes

Past tense of decode: decoded

Origin of decode

From de- + code.

Words formed from decode

Words that rhyme with decode

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Questions about decode

What does decode mean?
Decode means to convert from an encrypted form to plain text.
What is decode in Tamil?
Decode in Tamil is குறி நீக்கு, குறிவிலக்கு, குறிமுறை அவிழ். See Decode meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is decode?
Decode can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce decode?
Decode is pronounced /dɪˈkəʊd/ (UK).
What is the past tense of decode?
The past tense of decode is decoded.

Words near decode in the dictionary

  1. decocture
  2. decoctures
  3. decodabilities
  4. decodability
  5. decodable
  6. decode
  7. decoded
  8. decoden
  9. decoder
  10. decoder ring
  11. decoder rings

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: decode (page history and authors); decode (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Decode (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); decode (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); decode (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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