Definitions for decode

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decode de·code

Spelling: [dee-kohd]

IPA: /diˈkoʊd/

Decode is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in decode (cddeeo).

Definitions for decode

verb (used with object)

1. to translate (data or a message) from a code into the original language or form.
2. to extract meaning from (spoken or written symbols).
3. Television. to unscramble (an electronic signal) so as to provide a video picture for cable subscribers.

verb (used without object)

1. to work at decoding.

Origin of decode

First recorded in 1895-1900; de- + code

Examples for decode

He softened the rhetoric here and there, but if you decode his substantive words, he said nothing new.

Also, he was hungry, and he did not hurry over his dinner in order to decode it.

But she arguably did more than anyone to decode what was then the oldest written European language known to exist.

We have received messages, but as yet I have only been partially able to decode them!

Therefore I sat down at the little desk and at once commenced to decode it.

One night he received a telegram in cipher, which he gave me to decode.

It's there, my word for it, if we could only decode the thing.

The next one will be to teach cells to decode the information.

This track is so confusing and multi-layered, it would take a team of Mensa members with Ph.D.s in Ebonics to decode.

What they were recording was so unfamiliar that his brain could not decode the messages they sent.