decipher — Английский словарь

Глагол

1. To convert a code or cipher to plain text.

   Употребление

   • переходный глагол

   Синонимы

   decodedecryptuncode

   Антонимы

   encipherencodeencrypt

2. To read text that is almost illegible or obscure.

   Употребление

   • переходный глагол

3. To make sense of a complex situation.

   Употребление

   • переходный глагол

   Примеры

   Другие примеры (1)

   Truly, we need human infirmity to teach us human nature, and that to Louis had been as a sealed book; he had only seen the coloured and gilded outside: too late he had to decipher the rough and gloomy page within.

4. To find a solution to a problem.

   Употребление

   • переходный глагол

   Синонимы

   resolveunriddlework out

Существительное

1. A decipherment; a decoding.

   Примеры

   Другие примеры (1)

   I enclose a letter which I received yesterday evening from the Marques de Monsalud, containing the decipher of a letter from the King to the Comte d'Erlon. I wish that the Marques had sent the ciphered letter here […]

Глагол

1. convert code into ordinary language

   Синонимы

   decodedecrypt

   Более общие понятия

   rewrite

2. read with difficulty

   Синонимы

   trace

   Более общие понятия

   read

   Примеры

   Can you decipher this letter?

   The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs