decode

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.

A product of decoding

• 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.
• The British picked up a decode in November 1942 indicating that guards at Auschwitz would need six hundred gas masks.

Output from a program or device used to interpret communication protocols

• 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 Inte