What is "deciphering"

Usage examples of "deciphering".

The only one I know personally who specializes in deciphering ancient inscriptions is Dr.

O'Connell have also made headway in deciphering the alphabetic inscriptions.

But we have a long way to go in deciphering all the symbols and their meanings.

One morning two children pushed open the door and were startled at the sight of a filthy and hairy man who was still deciphering the parchments on the worktable.

Aureliano would spend his mornings deciphering parchments and at siesta time he would go to the bedroom where Nigromanta was waiting for him, to teach him first how to do it like earthworms, then like snails, and finally like crabs, until she had to leave him and lie in wait for vagabond loves.

Trying to overcome his disturbance, he grasped at the voice that he was losing, the life that was leaving him, the memory that was turning into a petrified polyp, and he spoke to her about the priestly destiny of Sanskrit, the scientific possibility of seeing the future showing through in time as one sees what is written on the back of a sheet of paper through the light, the necessity of deciphering the predictions so that they would not defeat themselves, and the Centuries of Nostradamus and the destruction of Cantabria predicted by Saint Milanus.

Fascinated by the discovery, Aureliano, read aloud without skipping the chanted encyclicals that Melquíades himself had made Arcadio listen to and that were in reality the prediction of his execution, and he found the announcement of the birth of the most beautiful woman in the world who was rising up to heaven in body and soul, and he found the origin of the posthumous twins who gave up deciphering the parchments, not simply through incapacity and lack of drive, but also because their attempts were premature.

Macon­do was already a fearful whirlwind of dust and rubble being spun about by the wrath of the biblical hurricane when Aureliano skipped eleven pages so as not to lose time with facts he knew only too well, and he began to decipher the instant that he was living, deciphering it as he lived it, prophesying himself in the act of decipher­ing the last page of the parchments, as if he were looking into a speaking mirror.

Even knowing how much effort was being marshalled worldwide on deciphering the Eater's transmission load, he was daily astonished at how much new work appeared.

The marks made the text difficult to read, but Bevis was not unpracticed in deciphering such puzzles.

Accordingly it is often difficult or impossible to test one's deciphering hypotheses, eliminating some and perhaps confirming others.

This key, then, in a simple case, without variations, would presumably be used in the following manner: the deciphering individual would write "C-I-B-R-O-N" in the first six spaces at the top of a kaissa board, moving from left to right, then following with the other, unused letters of the alphabet, moving from right to left on the second line, and so in, as "the ox plows," as standard Gorean is written.

He heard all about the milkman and my time in Galloway, and my deciphering Scudder's notes at the inn.