Definition of codebreaker in English:
codebreaker
nounˈkəʊdˌbreɪkəˈkoʊdˌbreɪkər
A person who solves a code or codes.
Example sentencesExamples
- By the time her brother died, he had recovered enough information for code-breakers at the wartime intelligence centre Bletchley Park to crack the Enigma codes.
- The novel will be enjoyed best by code-breakers.
- The series also contains a cipher - no prize this time - for wannabe code-breakers to try.
- One of these is the observation that language is a code employed only by code-breakers: that none of us knows the language we speak as a fully explicit system.
- In the weeks afterward, would-be code-breakers got to work on deciphering the judge's code.
- Such was the poor state of US intelligence communication, German code-breakers found it easy to intercept and interpret cables.
- During World War II some of the top military code-breakers in America tried to decipher it, but failed.
- During the Second World War a number of listening posts in the high frequency bands, coupled to Japanese language interpreters and code-breakers, were set up outside Delhi.
- The writers even created three alien languages that have given geeks and FBI code-breakers endless hours of fun.
- Two veteran code-breakers have received a worldwide response to their request for solutions to an enigmatic message on a monument.
Derivatives
noun
That encryption is vitally important is evidenced by the hundreds of millions spent on encryption technology and the billions spent on code-breaking.
Example sentencesExamples
- I find the Enigma files and ancillary code-breaking to be the most alluring of all spy activities.
- Visitors to the open day were able to try their hand at a series of techniques such as passport forgery, code-breaking and writing in invisible ink.
- The book's mix of code-breaking, art history, religion and mystical lore has helped it sell 25 million copies since it was published two years ago.
- The mathematician who has written books on code-breaking, is scheduled to speak next month.
Definition of codebreaker in US English:
codebreaker
nounˈkoʊdˌbreɪkərˈkōdˌbrākər
A person who solves a code or codes.
Example sentencesExamples
- During World War II some of the top military code-breakers in America tried to decipher it, but failed.
- Such was the poor state of US intelligence communication, German code-breakers found it easy to intercept and interpret cables.
- The novel will be enjoyed best by code-breakers.
- Two veteran code-breakers have received a worldwide response to their request for solutions to an enigmatic message on a monument.
- During the Second World War a number of listening posts in the high frequency bands, coupled to Japanese language interpreters and code-breakers, were set up outside Delhi.
- The series also contains a cipher - no prize this time - for wannabe code-breakers to try.
- In the weeks afterward, would-be code-breakers got to work on deciphering the judge's code.
- By the time her brother died, he had recovered enough information for code-breakers at the wartime intelligence centre Bletchley Park to crack the Enigma codes.
- One of these is the observation that language is a code employed only by code-breakers: that none of us knows the language we speak as a fully explicit system.
- The writers even created three alien languages that have given geeks and FBI code-breakers endless hours of fun.