DECIPHER


Meaning of DECIPHER in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

decipher a code formal (= break one )

His job involved deciphering the codes used by the enemy.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

code

Something that, once he had deciphered the code , would explain why Professor Max Flaschner was dead.

He was the Einstein of the hound kingdom-able to decipher morse code .

He had an inkling he was the only one who could decipher the code .

■ VERB

try

The more you try to decipher the more confusing it becomes.

He stared hard at pictures held out to him, trying to decipher their language.

Its use of mutation and chance seems to occur within restraints; within an algorithm that we are still trying to decipher .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Illiterate people may be able to recognize and decipher signs.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

For Adorno, then, the meaning of musical works is immanent; our role is to decipher it.

From then on the Chamber began following closely each development as the messages were in turn deciphered and translated.

It means that it has fewer aural clues from which to decipher the sense.

Much of our SleepTight tryout was spent deciphering directions.

She couldn't decipher it in the pitch black.

Those Hansard writers could decipher the Rosetta stone in their spare time.

What such discoveries mean is that scientists are deciphering what seems to be a fundamental weight-control system in the body.

Would you like me to decipher a Rorschach for you?

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