Past tense of encode
regular verb
The past tense of encode is encoded. The past participle is also encoded.
Forms of encode
| Base form (V1) | encode /ɪnˈkoʊd/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | encoded |
| Past participle (V3) | encoded |
| Present participle | encoding /ɪnˈkoʊdɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | encodes |
Encoded in a sentence
- When dialling a modern telephone, the telephone number is encoded and transmitted inband across the telephone line as a set of audible tones.From the entry inband
- Modulation is the process in which information is encoded in radio signals.2022, Elizabeth Rubio, “Transmitting and Receiving Radio Waves”, in Understanding and Using Radio Waves (The Electromagnetic Spectrum)…. From the entry modulation
- But it wasn’t only the madness of paranoid earls and fashionable landowners that was encoded in them.2018 April 18, Paul Cooper, “Europe Was Once Obsessed With Fake Dilapidated Buildings”, in The Atlantic. From the entry folly
- An object in an attended spot is encoded by the winner neuron in the recognition map layer.2004, Nikil R. Pal, Neural information processing, page 394. From the entry attended
- Encoded in YIMBY ideology is a belief that the best thing to do with NIMBYs is discard them.2022 June 5, Conor Dougherty, “Twilight of the NIMBY”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 10 Jun 2022. From the entry yimby
Meaning of encode
- verb To convert (plain text) into code.
- verb To convert source information into another form.
- verb To constitute the code necessary for the biosynthesis of a protein by means of a matrix so as to transcribe DNA material.
Questions about the past tense of encode
- What is the past tense of encode?
- The past tense of encode is encoded.
- What is the past participle of encode?
- The past participle of encode is encoded.
- Is encode a regular or irregular verb?
- Encode is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: encode (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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