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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
decode
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
message
▪ There was nothing personal in Cheltenham intercepting and decoding a confidential message from an ally to its own embassy.
▪ By June the first decoded and translated messages were available for study.
▪ In this sense, it will be as much about the decoding of visual commercial messages as about photography.
▪ We decode messages in personal, social and cultural contexts.
▪ When receptors receive and decode the message in order to uncover the meaning, the operation is no less complex.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The Allies were able to decode many enemy messages.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Because we think of ourselves as speaking freely, our speech is hard to decode.
▪ Building it in is hard because the amount of knowledge which is potentially relevant to decoding each pronoun, is extremely large.
▪ He did not know how to decode children, for he had never seen the process in his own home.
▪ If your count is less than twelve, please read on as I decode the hypermodern hoopla.
▪ It hardly takes much decoding to translate this into racial - indeed, not far from racist - terms.
▪ Public keys can be maintained in some central repository and retrieved to decode or encode information.
▪ When these figures are carefully decoded, a remarkably clear picture of the whole military organization emerges.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
decode

decode \decode\ v. t. to convert from a coded form into the original form; -- of communications. Inverse of encode.

Syn: decrypt, decipher[WE1].

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
decode

1896, from de- + code. Related: Decoded; decoding.

Wiktionary
decode

n. 1 (context cryptography English) A product of decoding 2 (context computing English) Output from a program or device used to interpret communication protocols vb. 1 To convert from an encrypted form to plain text. 2 To figure out something difficult to interpret.

WordNet
decode

v. convert code into ordinary language [syn: decrypt, decipher] [ant: encode]

Wikipedia
Decode (song)

"Decode" is a song by American rock band Paramore. The song was released as a single in 2008 from the soundtrack of the film Twilight. It is also included as a bonus track on the international version of Paramore's third studio album, Brand New Eyes.

An acoustic version of this song was released as a part of the special CD/DVD of the Twilight soundtrack. The song was certified Platinum in the U.S on February 16, 2010, selling over 1,000,000 copies. It was also nominated for a Grammy Award in 2010 for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media.

Usage examples of "decode".

The last of the dispatches was not entirely decoded until March 12, and for several days Adams struggled over what to do, listening to advice and scribbling his thoughts on paper as his mood swung one way then another.

You are instructed to encourage the appropriate castes of the Human Species to decode DNA and increase Altitude and Mobility.

The message had been received and decoded at the headquarters of a large tea plantation on the slopes of Mlanje Mountain, the proprietor of which was a member of the central committee of the Mozambique National Resistance and the deputy director of Renamo intelligence.

I read it over about six times and decoded some of the nonscientific terminology.

They lived at the same time and under the same political conditions as Hume did, and they were accustomed to the decoding the concealed meaning in other nontraditional writers.

In our small ways each of us has to be a semiotician decoding the signs supplied to us by our fellow human beings and the environment.

Mercury, or the nodes of specialized grist spread across human space decoding variations in antigraviton spins as they made their way backward in time.

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

How it skillfully decoded more than 10,000 messages from nearly two dozen nations, including those in difficult Japanese diplomatic code.

And some locked vault might also contain reams of intercepted and decoded Russian messages, which would offer enormous insight into Soviet military and political intentions after the war.

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.

The decoded message contained the launch order, a launch authenticator code for the computer-and a warhead fusing enable code.

He bragged about how he'd collected the charred tissue of Leander's brain and, from it, decoded the basic structure of Bohr's Maker.

Even a message enciphered on a three-rotor enigma might take twenty-four hours to decode, as the bombes clattered their way through the billions of permutations.

Most encrypted messages were decoded with a casualness that would shock those who sent them.