Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-der.
English de-
Latin caudex
Latin cōdex
Old French codebor.
Middle English code
English code
English decode
From de- + code.
Meanings
A product of decoding
The British picked up a decode in November 1942 indicating that guards at Auschwitz would need six hundred gas masks. 2005, Richard Breitman, U.S. Intelligence And The Nazis, page 31:
He was sure that references to AK in the intercepts stood for Midway, but none of the decodes made the identification certain. 2011, Hervie Haufler, Codebreakers' Victory, page 192:
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. 2004, David Cesarani, Holocaust: Responses to the Persecution and Mass Murder of the Jews, page 148:
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. 2006, Ian Pfennigwerth, A Man of Intelligence, page 223:
Output from a program or device used to interpret communication protocols
This version includes more than 400 decodes that cover everything from legacy decodes to popular decodes and new or updated decodes for such protocols as voice over IP H.323, Server Message Block, Border Gateway Protocol Version 4, and Internet Inter-ORB Protocol 1999, Laura Wonnacott, “Sniffer Pro sees some switches”, in Info World, page 37:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-der.
English de-
Latin caudex
Latin cōdex
Old French codebor.
Middle English code
English code
English decode
From de- + code.
Meanings
To convert from an encrypted form to plain text.
The cryptographer decoded the secret message and sent the result to the officer.
To figure out something difficult to interpret.
I finally managed to decode the nearly illegible doctor's prescription.
ru переводи́ть (to figure out something difficult to interpret) · sv avkoda (to convert from an encrypted form to plain text) · ja 解読する (to convert from an encrypted form to plain text) · el αποκωδικοποιώ (to convert from an encrypted form to plain text) · el αποκρυπτογραφώ (to convert from an encrypted form to plain text) · el αποκρυπτογραφώ (to figure out something difficult to interpret) · pt descodificar (to figure out something difficult to interpret) · ro decodifica (to convert from an encrypted form to plain text) · eo malkodi (to convert from an encrypted form to plain text) · az kodsuzlaşdırmaq (to convert from an encrypted form to plain text) · ru раскоди́ровать (to convert from an encrypted form to plain text) · pt decodificar (to convert from an encrypted form to plain text) · ota اوقومق (to figure out something difficult to interpret) · fi tulkita (to figure out something difficult to interpret) · ar فك تشفير (to convert from an encrypted form to plain text) · fi avata (to convert from an encrypted form to plain text) · hu megfejt (to convert from an encrypted form to plain text) · ca descodificar (to convert from an encrypted form to plain text) · ru расшифрова́ть (to convert from an encrypted form to plain text) · ru расшифро́вывать (to convert from an encrypted form to plain text) · ru расшифрова́ть (to figure out something difficult to interpret) · es decodificar (to convert from an encrypted form to plain text) · fi purkaa koodaus (to convert from an encrypted form to plain text) · pt descodificar (to convert from an encrypted form to plain text) · ru декоди́ровать (to convert from an encrypted form to plain text) · cs dekódovat (to convert from an encrypted form to plain text) · cmn 解碼 /解码 (to convert from an encrypted form to plain text) · fi dekoodata (to convert from an encrypted form to plain text) · es traducir (to figure out something difficult to interpret) · de decodieren (to convert from an encrypted form to plain text) · nl ontcijferen (to convert from an encrypted form to plain text) · ru расшифро́вывать (to figure out something difficult to interpret) · hu dekódol (to convert from an encrypted form to plain text) · cs rozšifrovat (to convert from an encrypted form to plain text) · fr décoder (to convert from an encrypted form to plain text) · da afkode (to convert from an encrypted form to plain text) · el αποκωδικογραφώ (to convert from an encrypted form to plain text) · mi wetewaehere (to convert from an encrypted form to plain text) · ru перевести́ (to figure out something difficult to interpret) · it decodificare (to convert from an encrypted form to plain text) · es descodificar (to convert from an encrypted form to plain text)