Decade vs Decode - What's the difference?
decade | decode |
A series or group of ten things.
A period of ten years.
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* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 481:
(Roman Catholicism) A series of ten Hail Marys in the rosary.
(physics, engineering) The interval between any two quantities having the ratio 10 to 1.
(cryptography) A product of decoding
* 2004 , David Cesarani,
* 2005 , Richard Breitman,
* 2006 , Ian Pfennigwerth,
* 2011 , Hervie Haufler,
(computing) Output from a program or device used to interpret communication protocols
* 1999 Laura Wonnacott,
To convert from an encrypted form to plain text.
To figure out something difficult to interpret.
As a noun decade
is period of ten days (such as the week in the ).As a verb decode is
.decade
English
Noun
(en noun)- a decade of soldiers
- The repeated exposure, over decades , to most taxa here treated has resulted in repeated modifications of both diagnoses and discussions, as initial ideas of the various taxa underwent—often repeated—conceptual modification.
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- The year was divided up into twelve months renamed after the seasons [...]; each month comprised three ‘decades ’ of ten days – with the décadi replacing Sundays as a day of rest; and each day was reconsecrated to a natural product or farming tool or technique.
- There are decades between 1.8 and 18, between 25 and 250 and between 0.03 and 0.003.
Usage notes
Unlike centuries or millennia (which properly run from xxx1 to xxx0), decades are an informal unit generally taken to run from xxx0 to xxx9. That is, the first century began in the year 1 and ended in the year 100 but the Nineties are those years whose name includes the word "ninety": '90, '91, '92...Synonyms
* (ten years)decode
English
Noun
(en noun)Holocaust: Responses to the Persecution and Mass Murder of the Jews, page 148
- If and when the remaining Allied intercepts and decodes are opened up, we may expect to learn a great deal more about the later stages of the Holocaust.
U.S. Intelligence And The Nazis, page 31
- The British picked up a decode in November 1942 indicating that guards at Auschwitz would need six hundred gas masks.
A Man of Intelligence, page 223
- Decodes stating that Hollandia airfields were becoming overcrowded with IJA aircraft waiting to stage forward to Wewak led to pre-emptive strikes by Allied air forces and the destruction of more than 300 Japanese aircraft on the ground.
Codebreakers' Victory, page 192
- He was sure that references to AK in the intercepts stood for Midway, but none of the decodes made the identification certain.
"Sniffer Pro sees some switches", Info World , page 37
- This version includes more than 400 decodes' that cover everything from legacy '''decodes''' to popular '''decodes''' and new or updated ' decodes for such protocols as voice over IP H.323, Server Message Block, Border Gateway Protocol Version 4, and Internet Inter-ORB Protocol
Verb
(en-verb)- The cryptographer decoded the secret message and sent the result to the officer.
- I finally managed to decode the nearly illegible doctor's prescription.