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decode

convert code into ordinary language

In a sentence

Six example sentences with decode, each labelled with its topic.

  • Bletchley Park analysts worked through the night to decode intercepted German signals before the convoy reached open water.

    History

  • Players who decode the scrawled runes on the tomb wall unlock a hidden corridor beneath the flooded temple.

    Gaming

  • Radiologists learn to decode faint shadows on a chest film into a clear picture of what ails the patient.

    Medicine

  • The browser must decode the compressed stream before a single frame of video can appear on the screen.

    Technology

  • Researchers decode the bird's song by slowing the recording tenfold until each note separates into distinct syllables.

    Science

  • Scholars finally decoded the shorthand in the diarist's notebooks, revealing three centuries of perfectly ordinary gossip.

    Literature

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