0 to discover the meaning of something written badly or in a difficult or hidden way:
Can you decipher the writing on this envelope?
1 to discover the meaning of something hard to understand or which contains a hidden message:
It is just a fact that things written in a non-standard form of language are difficult to decipher, even if they are phonetically correct.
The symbolic messages encoded in the distribution of these items are difficult to decipher before their ongoing preservation and reconstruction have been completed.
The multiple messages conveyed by this story are subtle but not difficult to decipher.
Advertising appears to be the driving force behind treating sound qualities as symbolic and creating increasingly complicated scenarios for listeners to decipher.
A second example in which the effects of early exposure have been deciphered from naturalistic studies concerns maternal depression.
This also gives us cipher and decipher, taking us back to when codes were composed not with letters but with numbers.
Similar hypotheses regarding the foundations of successful ageing could be tested by studies that have deciphered the preferred value orientations of other, different, cultures.
Trying to decipher such values during debugging can be quite a challenge.
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