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en·code /ɪnˈkəʊd $ -ˈkoʊd/ verb [transitive]  SLto put a message or other information into code 把…译成电码[密码] OPP decode, decipher→ See Verb table

Examples from the Corpus

encode• Instead, they are culturally encoded.• A type of scanner which can encode characters on a page and store them electronically.• A month later Salmon confidently handed the code clerk a number of messages encoded in an entirely new system.• In a system that encodes information in terms of patterns of activity information processing could be going on without a net increase in metabolism.• Tense, therefore, can be deictic in as much as it can be used to encode specific temporal relations with respect to the encoder.• It encodes the overthrow of the Goddess-centered world.• The genes encoding the protein are packaged such that the encoded protein is displayed on the outside of the package.• Once deposited, checks must be electronically encoded with the dollar amount.

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en‧code /ɪnˈkəʊd $ -ˈkoʊd/ verb [transitive]
to put a message or other information into code
   OPP  decode, decipher

en·codeBrE /ɪnˈkəʊd/ 🔊NAmE /ɪnˈkoʊd/ 🔊 verbpresent simple - I / you / we / they encode BrE /ɪnˈkəʊd/ 🔊 NAmE /ɪnˈkoʊd/ 🔊present simple - he / she / it encodes BrE /ɪnˈkəʊdz/ 🔊 NAmE /ɪnˈkoʊdz/ 🔊past simple encoded BrE /ɪnˈkəʊdɪd/ 🔊 NAmE /ɪnˈkoʊdɪd/ 🔊past participle encoded BrE /ɪnˈkəʊdɪd/ 🔊 NAmE /ɪnˈkoʊdɪd/ 🔊 -ing form encoding BrE /ɪnˈkəʊdɪŋ/ 🔊 NAmE /ɪnˈkoʊdɪŋ/ 🔊~ sth to change ordinary language into letters, symbols, etc. in order to send secret messages 把…译成电码（或密码）~ sth (computing 计算机) to change information into a form that can be processed by a computer 把…编码~ sth (linguistics 语言学) to express the meaning of sth in a foreign language 把…译成外语  ➡  compare decode