Decode
Decode verb - To have a clear idea of.
Usage example: I was never able to decode the strange relationship that existed between those two people
Make
Make verb - To have a clear idea of.
Usage example: what do you make of the latest information?
Common collocations
| music | decode music | make music |
Both words in one sentence
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Its biology was such that the medical computers, including the Doctor, couldn't make sense of it, and its language was beyond the universal translators capacity to decode.
Source: Series / Star Trek: Voyager - The World Wonders, a meaningless phrase - intended to make messages harder to decode - that was mistaken for part of a real transmission during the Battle of Leyte Gulf (Charge of the Light Brigade)
Source: Literary Allusion Title -
Well-Intentioned Extremist: Christella Revi in Decode plots terrorist attacks as a way of forcing those in power to make life better for the Altan people.
Source: Manga / Birdy the Mighty
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