secret code

Examples

• All

• Patty knows that he's trying to signal something, but they haven't worked out yet how to talk to each other in secret code across distances.

  Fiction book (1995)

• Anson Stager is not exactly a household name, but perhaps that is only fitting for a man whose main claim to fame is that he created the most widely used—and most effective—secret code during the Civil War.

  Blog text (28)

• We need a secret code.

  Deadpool 2 (2018)

• "Like some secret code or something."

  Fiction book (1995)

• It seemed to be in some secret code.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Don't watch what I'm doing, this is a very secret code.

  The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006)

• You don't need a secret code or password and no knowledge of source code of any type.

  Blog text (32)

• They're thinking of it like some secret code, Liberty moaned.

  Fiction book (1993)

• He eyed Barney, who was turning the paper every which way as if it were a puzzle or a secret code.

  Fiction book (1995)

• They had flown in two days earlier for this mission: to break into the embassy of a South Asian country, steal that country's secret codes, and get out without leaving a trace.

  Blog text (28)

Synonyms

C

code

vssecret code

499 4.3

A way of using signs, letters, or numbers to hide a message

focuses only on hiding meaning from people who are initiated

C

cipher

vssecret code

• Specialized

28 8.8

A secret way of writing to hide a message

is a system that conceals meaning only from those initiated

C

cypher

vssecret code

• UK

1 8.9

A secret written message that hides the true meaning

is the broader method used to hide meaning from initiated people

How Secure

data encryption

• Specialized

1 4.3

secret code

3 5.2

plaintext

• Specialized

3.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology