Transcode vs Decode - What's the difference?
transcode | decode |
(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 verbs the difference between transcode and decode
is that transcode is while decode is .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.