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decipherde‧ci‧pher /dɪˈsaɪfə $ -ər/ verb [transitive] VERB TABLEdecipher |
Present | I, you, we, they | decipher | | he, she, it | deciphers | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | deciphered | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have deciphered | | he, she, it | has deciphered | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had deciphered | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will decipher | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have deciphered |
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Present | I | am deciphering | | he, she, it | is deciphering | | you, we, they | are deciphering | Past | I, he, she, it | was deciphering | | you, we, they | were deciphering | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been deciphering | | he, she, it | has been deciphering | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been deciphering | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be deciphering | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been deciphering |
- Illiterate people may be able to recognize and decipher signs.
- 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?
► decipher a code formal (=break one)· His job involved deciphering the codes used by the enemy. 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. 1to find the meaning of something that is difficult to read or understand → indecipherable: She studied the envelope, trying to decipher the handwriting.2to change a message written in a code into ordinary language so that you can read it SYN decode—decipherment noun [uncountable] |