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decode

verb
/dɪˈkəʊd/UK

Etymology

From de- + code.

  1. derived from cōdex
  2. derived from code
  3. inherited from code — “system of law”
  4. prefixed as decode — “de + code”

Definitions

  1. To convert from an encrypted form to plain text.

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

  2. To figure out something difficult to interpret.

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

  3. A 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.
    • The British picked up a decode in November 1942 indicating that guards at Auschwitz would need six hundred gas masks.
    • 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.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Output from a program or device used to interpret communication protocols

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at decode. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at decode. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at decode

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA