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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Decipherment is the analysis of documents written in ancient languages. Decipher may also refer to: Decipher (novel) , the novel by Stel Pavlou Decipher (After Forever album) , 2001 album Decipher (John Taylor album) Decipher, Inc. , a game publisher based ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES decipher a code formal (= break one ) ▪ His job involved deciphering the codes used by the enemy. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN code ▪ Something that, once he had deciphered the code , would explain why Professor Max ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, from de- + cipher . Perhaps in part a loan-translation from Middle French déchiffrer . Related: Deciphered ; deciphering .
Usage examples of decipher.
You knew from Angleton that the Americans had deciphered bits of text that identified Maclean as the Soviet agent HOMER.
But with the final avatara of Lord Vishnu, that of Kalian, soma was again found by a great guru who deciphered the ancient writings of Mohenjo-Daro, in the Indus valley of Mother Earth.
Vishwamitra chanted aloud a mantra too arcane and complex for any brahmin to decipher.
They spoke in hushed tones, and Calliste could not decipher what they were saying.
One cryptologist predicted that the manuscript would be easier to decipher than a newspaper cryptogram.
She carefully deciphered the code and watched in wonder as the seemingly random digits turned magically into beautiful poetry.
She carefully deciphered the code and watched in wonder asthe seemingly random digits turned magically into beautiful poetry.
He felt it was highly necessary to get the ponderous thing home and begin deciphering it, and bore it out of the shop with such precipitate haste that the old Jew chuckled disturbingly behind him.
This consisted of a single letter, known to both encipherer and decipherer, with which the decipherer could decipher the first cryptogram letter and so get a start on his, work.
But even if the entire document had been delivered on time, the 25 minutes that remained until the attack would not have been sufficient time for all the steps needed to prevent surprise: reading the document, guessing that a military attack was intended, notifying the War and Navy departments, composing, enciphering, transmitting, and deciphering an appropriate warning, and alerting the outpost forces.
By the end of the century, cryptology had become important enough for most states to keep full-time cipher secretaries occupied in making up new keys, enciphering and deciphering messages, and solving intercepted dispatches.
This done, she was given her own key, as a badge of her office, and found a job in one of the stalls enciphering and deciphering books.
Langdon had once worked on a series of Baconian manuscripts that contained epigraphical ciphers in which certain lines of code were clues as to how to decipher the other lines.
It had been Sophie who spotted the Fibonacci sequence, and, no doubt, Sophie who, if given a little more time, would have deciphered the message with no help from Langdon.
In the early years, it would often thrash about arid make motions with its flagella, but the waiting tape recorders heard no sound that could be deciphered.