decipherer
- noun
- /dɪˈsaɪfərər/
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decifrador
- Their point of departure is a quotation from the introduction to Mary Shelley's The Last Man (1826), which reads in part: "Sometimes I have thought that, obscure and chaotic as the Sibylline leaves found in a cave are, they owe their present form to me, their decipherer."
Examples
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The secret withheld, like the field notes destroyed by Murdock, represents events of letting-be, a condition of openness toward letting-go, a relation of audition, of privileged listener, decipherer, scribe.
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I am a detective, I am a decipherer, and I am a finder of lost souls.
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Rather, as Stetz rightly says, "Jenny is both a participant in the events and our decipherer of their meaning" (64).
Academic text (2017) -
As a skilled decipherer, she was able to understand the ancient manuscript that confused many historians.
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The team hired a decipherer to interpret the coded messages found in the spy's documents.
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His role as a decipherer involved translating complex legal texts into simpler language for the public.
Synonyms
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8.7
A person who makes or breaks secret codes
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9.6
A person who studies and breaks secret codes
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9.9
A person who decodes secret messages and breaks codes
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4.6
A person, machine, or program that finds the meaning of secret messages
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Etymology
Decipherer comes from decipher, which is made of de- 'remove' and cipher, a word that came from Arabic for 'zero' and later meant 'code'. So a decipherer is someone who 'removes' the secret from a code to find the real message.