DECODE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does decode mean? 

• DECODE (verb)
  The verb DECODE has 1 sense:

1. convert code into ordinary language

  Familiarity information: DECODE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DECODE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they decode    ... he / she / it decodes   
Past simple: decoded   
Past participle: decoded   
-ing form: decoding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Convert code into ordinary language

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

decipher; decode; decrypt

Hypernyms (to "decode" is one way to...):

rewrite (write differently; alter the writing of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

encode (convert information into code)

Derivation:

decoding (the activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text)

 Context examples 

A team of scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, used spectroscopy to decode the light and reveal clues to the chemical makeup of an atmosphere.

(Hubble Telescope Makes First Atmospheric Study of Earth-Sized Exoplanets, NASA)

A program that decodes instructions written in a higher order language and produces an assembly language program.

(Compiler, NCI Thesaurus)

You have an interesting horoscope because your imagination comes from being strongly right brained—you are a master at decoding symbols and gestures, and your mind communicates through pictures, photographs, film music, dance, art, and other non-verbal forms of communication.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)