Explain vs Decode - What's the difference?
explain | decode |
To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of.
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* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
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, title= To give a valid excuse for some past behavior.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
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, title= (obsolete) To make flat, smooth out.
(obsolete) To unfold or make visible.
* (John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
(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.
Decode is a synonym of explain.
As verbs the difference between explain and decode
is that explain is to make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of while decode is to convert from an encrypted form to plain text.As a noun decode is
a product of decoding.explain
English
(Explanation)Verb
(en verb)- The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits. He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. Nobody would miss them, he explained .
Pixels or Perish, passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}
Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}
- The horse-chestnut isready to explain its leaf.
Synonyms
* (give a sufficiently detailed report) expound, elaboratedecode
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.