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Decides vs Decodes - What's the difference?

decides | decodes |

As verbs the difference between decides and decodes

is that decides is while decodes is .

decides

English

Verb

(head)
  • (decide)
    • ----

    decide

    English

    Verb

    (decid)
  • To resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle.
    • The election will be decided on foreign policies.
    We must decide our next move.
    Her last-minute goal decided the game.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The quarrel toucheth none but us alone; / Betwixt ourselves let us decide it then.
  • To make a judgment, especially after deliberation.
    • You must decide between good and evil.
    I have decided that it is healthier to walk to work.
  • * Bible, 1 Kings xx. 40
    • So shall thy judgment be; thyself hast decided it.
  • To cause someone to come to a decision.
  • * 1920 , , "The Adventure of the Three Gables" (Norton edition, 2005, p. 1537),
    • It decides me to look into the matter, for if it is worth anyone's while to take so much trouble, there must be something in it.
  • (obsolete) To cut off; to separate.
  • * Fuller
    • Our seat denies us traffic here; / The sea, too near, decides us from the rest.

    Usage notes

    * This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . See

    Synonyms

    * make up one's mind * choose * determine * pick

    Related terms

    * decider * decision * decisive

    Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words English reporting verbs English words suffixed with -cide ----

    decodes

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (decode)

    • decode

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (cryptography) A product of decoding
  • * 2004 , David Cesarani, 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.
  • * 2005 , Richard Breitman, 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.
  • * 2006 , Ian Pfennigwerth, 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.
  • * 2011 , Hervie Haufler, 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.
  • (computing) Output from a program or device used to interpret communication protocols
  • * 1999 Laura Wonnacott, "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)
  • To convert from an encrypted form to plain text.
    • The cryptographer decoded the secret message and sent the result to the officer.
  • To figure out something difficult to interpret.
    • I finally managed to decode the nearly illegible doctor's prescription.

    Synonyms

    * decipher

    Antonyms

    * encode

    Derived terms

    * decoder * codec