to decipher
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4.6
- verb
- /dɪˈsaɪfər/
:
descifrar
- The archaeologist worked tirelessly to decipher the ancient manuscript found in the ruins.
- decipher the meaning
- decipher the code
- decipher the word
And maybe from there you can decipher what the situation is.
- And maybe from there you can decipher what the situation is.
- And as we'll see next time, that made the deciphering job even easier.
- The first paper was titled Can ChatGPT Decipher Fed speak?
- And it's probably not the best way of trying to decipher what's healthy, what's less healthy.
- We must also decipher the fictions that give meaning to our world.
- But so that's just a question of painstakingly transcribing, deciphering the letters.
- You have seen how difficult it is to decipher the script with one's eyes, but our man deciphers it with his wounds.
- The manifesto of the Zodiac Killer, the very last segment they could not decipher.
- What we got was Hollywood accents, that West Coast accent that we can kind of decipher.
- So Ryan investigates the matter and manages to decipher the enigma.
- I mean, again, you, you know, just just think about all of the illusions that we're now unable to decipher illusion from truth, right?
- And she said that there's that the writing itself is often so poor that you have to like, decipher it to get out what they're trying to say.
- You know, like really try to pay attention to your body so that your thinking brain can start deciphering what your feeling brain is telling it.
Examples
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I need someone who can decipher these symbols.
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The text of this impression is difficult to decipher and is littered with errors.
Academic text (2013) -
And maybe from there you can decipher what the situation is.
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We just have to know how to decipher it.
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I was the only one who could decipher it.
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And then you need to start to decipher the signals that the body gives you.
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From the surviving documents that we have been able to decipher, it seems likely that this was so.
Fiction book (1993) -
To the extent we succeed, we gain the ability to decipher many messages that nature has left for us.
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The curator taught me how to decipher these.
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I employed an assistant to help me decipher the handwriting.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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1.0
To look at and understand written or printed words
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3.8
To change coded information into normal words
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6.6
To change coded writing into readable text
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5.7
To find the secret meaning or solution in something difficult
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Morphology
Etymology
Decipher comes from de- meaning 'remove' and cipher meaning 'code', from an old Arabic word for 'zero'. So to decipher something is to 'remove the code' and make a secret or hard-to-read message clear.