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How to use decode in a sentence

34 example sentences · verb, noun

Decode means to convert from an encrypted form to plain text. Example: “The cryptographer decoded the secret message and sent the result to the officer.”

Examples of decode by meaning

verbTo convert from an encrypted form to plain text.

  • The cryptographer decoded the secret message and sent the result to the officer.

verbTo figure out something difficult to interpret.

  • I finally managed to decode the nearly illegible doctor's prescription.

nounA 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
  • Decodes stating that Hollandia airfields were becoming overcrowded with IJA aircraft waiting to stage forward to Wewak led to pre-emptive strikes by Allied air forces and the destruction of more than 300 Japanese aircraft on the ground.2006, Ian Pfennigwerth, A Man of Intelligence, page 223

More sentences with decode

  • During the war, his grandmother had worked at the Bletchley Park decoding station as a calculator.From the entry calculator
  • The scrambling of the message made it harder to decode.From the entry scrambling
  • We’ve seen him flirt with the dot-connectors by throwing out something cryptic for the internet to decode.2025 July 29, Zach Harper, “Luka Dončić’s revenge muscles, plus Nikola Jokić’s horse celebration”, in The Athletic, New York, N.Y.: The…. From the entry dot-connector
  • Learning grapheme-phonemes correspondences helps children decode and blend words more easily, making them more fluent readers.2023 February 1, Mattew Lynch, “Grapheme-phoneme Correspondence (GPC)”, in Pedagogue, United States, archived from the original on 06 Sep…. From the entry grapheme-phoneme correspondence
  • But I bet you that you don’t have those datablocks to decode that information, do you?2015, Steve Wheeler, Onyx Javelin (A Fury of Aces; 3), Sydney, N.S.W.: HarperVoyager, →ISBN, page 284. From the entry datablock
  • Gyarumoji (gal characters) are designed to hinder the decoding of text by those not in the know.2010, Nanette Gottlieb, “Technology and the writing system in Japan”, in Patrick Heinrich, Christian Galan, editors, Language Life in…. From the entry gyaru-moji
  • When most people try to decode the emotion in a pair of eyes, their amygdalae light up.2004 May 9, Jonathan Weiner, “This Is Your Brain on Drugs”, in New York Times. From the entry amygdalae
  • The act of translation requires the stepwise decoding of the mRNA one codon at a time.2003, Steven Scott Phelps, tRNA interactions in the ribosomal A-site […] , page 48. From the entry stepwise
  • The error messages showed above seems to occur twice before the file is finally decoded!1998 July 1, RProcess (quoting Samson), “Re: Potato questions”, in alt.privacy.anon-server (Usenet). From the entry unmessupable
  • That she could unpack, decode, index, retrieve, and interpret my reference at all was an unmodelable miracle.1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, Vintage (2019), page 198. From the entry unmodelable
  • So far, nobody has been able to decode any of the messages!October 1986, William O'Connell, “Get On The Air”, in Boys' Life, volume 76, number 10, page 35. From the entry numbers station
  • Predecoding enables reduction of decoding latency and an area-efficient layout.2024, John Reuben, Resistive RAM and Peripheral Circuitry: An Integrated Circuit Perspective, John Reuben, page 103. From the entry predecoding
  • A dedicated unit called the predecoded unit executes partial decoding and joins several decode bits to each instruction.2021 July 20, TutorialsPoint, “Parallel Decoding in Computer Architecture”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name). From the entry predecoding
  • It is a message to be read by others in order to decode the identity of the accessorist.2005, Edward P. Comentale, Stephen Watt, Skip Willman, Ian Fleming & James Bond: The Cultural Politics of 007. From the entry accessorist
  • Foundational to this technology is the ability to decode neural signals that arise in the brain into commands that can be recognized by the machine.2019 October 24, Oscar Schwartz, “Mind-reading tech? How private companies could gain access to our brains”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry BCI
  • The MesJ protein is a well-known cell-cycle protein that is directly responsible for lysidine formation and thus is essential for decoding AUA codons in vivo.2015 July 4, Jiangtao Guo et al., “Horizontal gene transfer in an acid mine drainage microbial community”, in BMC Genomics, volume 16, →DOI. From the entry lysidine
  • More often than not, they employed this term when referencing various teen dramas that occurred between friends and classmates that required insider knowledge to decode.2014, danah boyd, It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens (page 69). From the entry subtweet
  • Opposed to codes that qualify, and overcodes that bring codes into a single resonance, axioms function by directly conjugating unqualified and decoded flows themselves.2012, Thomas Nail, Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari and Zapatismo, →ISBN, page 94. From the entry overcode
  • In NORM, the key is kept intact such that it can be used to decode the Y-code signals being sent by the NAVSTAR satellites.2008 December 15, NASA, “2.13 Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC)”, in Shuttle Crew Operations Manual (PDF), archived from the…. From the entry zeroize
  • The second experiment develops potential neural circuits for the swimming and trotting of the salamander; an animal whose locomotor circuitry has currently not been decoded.1999, Auke Jan Ijspeert, “Synthetic Approaches to Neurobiology: Review and Case Study in the Control of Anguiliform Locomotion”, in Dario…. From the entry circuitry
  • The postmodern hero is street-smart and adwise; he sees through everything; decodes everything, mostly for fun; and is always protected by his ironic detachment.1989 January 16, Jackson Lears, “Deride and Conquer”, in The Nation, volume 248, number 2, New York, N.Y.: The Nation Company, Inc.…. From the entry adwise
  • Rewriting a Latin author in English order merely enables the student to transverbalize and decode; it does not teach him to read.1950, The Classical Journal, page 336. From the entry transverbalize
  • The hash mark of rebar or the curve of a hubcap will create curious shapes to be decoded; even, perhaps, entire subway trains and lengths of tracks will remain.2020, David Farrier, “Thin Cities”, in Footprints, 4th Estate, →ISBN. From the entry rebar
  • We examined two possible types of phonological decoding: the use of phonetic radicals, an internal phonological aid, and the use of Zhuyin, an external phonological coding system.2018, Luan Li, Hua-Chen Wang, Anne Castles, Miao-Ling Hsieh, Eva Marinus, “Phonetic radicals, not phonological coding systems, support…. From the entry Zhuyin
  • This playful "ponyspeak" is innocent and easy to decode, but it inspired the much more vernacular "bronyspeak," a hybrid of this official wordplay with oral urban slang.2015, Bill Ellis, "What Bronies See When They Brohoof: Queering Animation on the Dark and Evil Internet", Journal of American Folklore…. From the entry bronyspeak
  • Based on that decoding process, we may need to call an audible and either fine-tune or change channels in an attempt to help teenagers decode our messages more accurately.2008, Doug Fields & Duffy Robbins, Speaking to Teenagers: How to Think About, Create, and Deliver Effective Messages, Zondervan/Youth…. From the entry call an audible
  • Since we don't get honest information from this White House, we must instead, as the Soviets once did, decode our rulers' fictions to discern what's really happening.2005 December 11, Frank Rich, “It Takes a Potemkin Village”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 10 Feb 2021. From the entry Potemkin village
  • Gombert begins the volume by presenting evidence that in addition to explicit teaching of basic decoding skills, metalinguistic knowledge or epilanguage that children bring into reading is also important.2003, R. Malatesha Joshi et al., Literacy Acquisition: The Role of Phonology, Morphology and Orthography, IOS Press, published 2003, page v. From the entry epilanguage
  • To account for silences within a phone decoding we have chosen to employ the SAMPROSA (Speech Assessment Methods Prosodic Approach) suggestion of ‘. . .’ to represent silence.2002, B.S. Manjunath, Philippe Salembier, Thomas Sikora, Introduction to MPEG-7: Multimedia Content Description Interface, volume 1, page…. From the entry SAMPROSA

Meaning of decode

  1. verb To convert from an encrypted form to plain text.
  2. verb To figure out something difficult to interpret.
  3. noun A product of decoding.

Full definition of decode

Questions about decode in a sentence

How do you use decode in a sentence?
Decode is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The cryptographer decoded the secret message and sent the result to the officer.”
What is a short sentence with decode?
“I finally managed to decode the nearly illegible doctor's prescription.”
What does decode mean?
Decode means to convert from an encrypted form to plain text.

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