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Answer for the clue "Convert code into ordinary language ", 8 letters:
decoding

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Word definitions for decoding in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text; "a secret key or password is required for decryption" [syn: decryption , decipherment ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Decoding , in semiotics , is the process of interpreting a message sent by an addresser to an addressee. The complementary processcreating a message for transmission to an addresseeis called encoding .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An instance of the translation of something into a form more suitable for subsequent processing. vb. (present participle of decode English)

Usage examples of decoding.

I think we get better information from the decoding of cyphers by Ultra.

For his prodigious work in turning over industrial and atomic secrets to the Soviets, see John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, New Haven, Conn.

Gone are the days of Benton s childhood, when his sticky fingers dug through caramel-glazed popcorn and peanuts for treasure, such as a plastic whistle or BB game or, best of all, the magic decoding ring that little Benton wore on his index finger, pretending it empowered him to know what people thought, what they would do and which monster he would defeat on his next secret mission.

Twenty-four hours a day, giant antennas on Cuba intercepted United States civilian telephone calls and military radio signals, relaying them to Cayo Santa Maria, where they were fed into the computers for decoding and analysis.

While decoding Ethan's existence we were removing stray grass seeds from each other's Clockwork Orange thug costumes.

Why, he can work these damn decoding gismos ten times faster than anybody in the wardroom.

So when he was assigned the day's code number, he usually wrote it right on the day's decoding instruction card-a serious violation of security procedures, since anyone with the code number could issue the execution code.

He wrote up his logs on time, and often volunteered to help Willie with decoding when traffic piled up.

Combining his childhood penchant for pure mathematics, his ability to conceive in abstract permutations as developed and displayed in his Gô training, and his native facility in six languages, he was able to locate the errors in decoding fairly easily.

Tommy Dort, sweating over the coding and decoding machines, found a personal equation emerging from the at first stilted arrays of word cards which arranged themselves.

But if Trask had expected Turchin to be taken aback by the complexity of the place its communications equipment, computer consoles, decoding devices, variously coloured telephones, wall screens, charts, and other gadgets galore then Trask was the one who was taken by surprise.