Decipher vs Defenestrate - What's the difference?
decipher | defenestrate |
To decode or decrypt a code or cipher to plain text.
To read text that is almost illegible or obscure.
To find a solution to a problem.
To eject or throw (someone or something) from a window; compare transfenestrate.
* 1998 September 25, , quoted in "
To throw out.
* 1998 , Barry J. Fraser and Kenneth George Tobin, International Handbook of Science Education , Volume 2,
* 2001 , , Volume 381, Issues 8498-8501, Page 42,
* 2004 , Mary Carey and Kim Berquist, Writing from a Small Country: Anthology of the Creative Writing Club, Luxembourg? ,
(computing, transitive, humorous, slang) To remove a (Windows) operating system from a computer.
* 1998 December 17, Darren Salt <news@youmustbejoking.demon.com.uk>, "Re: Coding speccy games in the good 'ole days", message-ID <48B60EA729%news@youmustbejoking.demon.com.uk>, comp.sys.sinclair , Usenet [http://google.com/group/comp.sys.sinclair/msg/8b00481a8be589d2]:
*:: This posting was written on a Windows 95 PC,
* 2001 July 21, "Packet Rat" (pseudonym), "
* 2007 May 16, ,
In lang=en terms the difference between decipher and defenestrate
is that decipher is to find a solution to a problem while defenestrate is to throw out.As verbs the difference between decipher and defenestrate
is that decipher is to decode or decrypt a code or cipher to plain text while defenestrate is to eject or throw (someone or something) from a window; compare transfenestrate.decipher
English
Alternative forms
* decypherVerb
(en verb)Derived terms
* deciphermentAnagrams
*defenestrate
English
Verb
(defenestrat)TFK Q&A: Lane Smith and Jon Scieszka", in Time for Kids :
- I defenestrated a clock to see if time flies!
- The cultural historians of science 'feel the need to defenestrate science, or at least take it off its pedestal' (Pumfrey. Rossi & Slawinski 1991. p. 3).
- Ever since he helped to defenestrate Richard Nixon in 1974, Mr Woodward has been a sort of super-reporter ...
- According to the guidebooks, they do it so strenuously that women would very much like to defenestrate the custom.
- Defenestrate it immediately. Install Linux. :-)
Judge Rat calls for a Microsoft defenestration", on GCN: Government Computer News :
- ? Enable one-click uninstalls of unwanted OS and application features with a Defenestrate icon.
- Now of course people who want freedom shouldn't use Windows at all, you've got to defenestrate your computer, which mean either you throw Windows out of the computer, or you throw the computer out the window.
References
* “defenestrate” in PC Magazine Encyclopedia .