- cryptography, coding, secret writing - act of writing in code or cipher
--1 is a kind of writing, committal to writing
--1 has particulars:encoding, encryption; recoding; decoding, decryption, decipherment Derived form: verb code2
- code - attach a code to; "Code the pieces with numbers so that you can identify them later"
--1 is one way to tag, label, mark
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- encode, code, encipher, cipher, cypher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code - convert ordinary language into code; "We should encode the message for security reasons"
--2 is one way to write
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun code3, noun code2, noun coder1, noun coding1
Somebody ----s something
- encode, code, encipher, cipher, cypher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code - convert ordinary language into code; "We should encode the message for security reasons"