How to Use encode in a Sentence

encode

verb
Definition of encodenext
Synonyms for encodenext
  • Credit cards are encoded with cardholder information.
  • There’s a bit of pressure to encode that song with advice or wisdom, which was kind of a neat thing.
    — Will Schube, GQ, 7 Apr. 2018
  • After all, what’s best in us is at least as deeply imprinted and encoded as what’s worst in us.
    — Arianna Huffington, TIME, 8 Oct. 2024
  • However, the charges may not encode enough information or may not do so in a unique way, Giddings cautions.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 20 Mar. 2018
  • One surprising result is that the number of genes required to encode a tiny nematode worm, a fish and a human being is about the same.
    — Christian Edwards, CNN, 7 Oct. 2024
  • The bugs also encode for certain enzymes that can help them resist pesticides and survive extreme environments.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 21 Mar. 2018
  • The charges could distinguish one black hole from another and encode infalling information, Strominger says.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Those themes are, crucially, transparent to the dreamer (contrary to Freud’s claim that the meaning of dreams was encoded, to avoid disturbing the dreamer).
    — Linda Rodriguez McRobbie, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2018
  • There is a dominant male, Western-centric point of view that gets encoded into the organization of information.
    — Sean Illing, Vox, 3 Apr. 2018
  • When the team deleted the genes that encode key parts of the tailocin, the killing went away.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 June 2024
  • To encode that, the brain has to do something less direct.
    — Jordana Cepelewicz, WIRED, 17 Feb. 2019
  • In this view, we must have been somehow encoded in the first moments of the universe.
    — Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 4 May 2023
  • The filter won’t detect the same pattern in the data or encode the same feature map.
    — Quanta Magazine, 9 Jan. 2020
  • If only 1 to 2 percent of the RNA from our genome was encoding proteins, what was the rest for?
    — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
  • For now, users who encode a lot of video throughout their day are likely the best target for Xe Max.
    — Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 4 Nov. 2020
  • These are treated with a group of drugs that block the protein the mutant EGFR gene encodes for, slowing the cancer’s growth.
    — Monika Joshi, The Conversation, 1 May 2023
  • The debate over whether to encode the transmissions is playing out across the country.
    — Chelsia Rose Marcius, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2023
  • When input in the form of light flows into the chip, the output light encodes data from complex tasks.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Once those mistakes were encoded in the dance, the teacherless bees repeated the errors for the rest of their lives.
    — Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 9 Mar. 2023
  • If only 1 to 2 percent of this RNA was encoding proteins, what was the rest for?
    — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
  • Aaron has spent the past 13 years optimizing the way Netflix encodes its movies and TV shows.
    — Janko Roettgers, The Verge, 22 June 2024
  • Incentives are way too far in the future to give you that all-important shot of dopamine that encodes the new habit.
    — Bj Fogg, Time, 30 Dec. 2019
  • As one species changes, the other may change in response, and these changes can even become encoded in their genes.
    — Jacob S. Suissa, The Conversation, 20 June 2024
  • At the same time, most of the genetic differences among the VC2 genes occur in the proteins that encode the legs, which latch on to these sugars.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 June 2024
  • Frequently, such SNPs are not even in the bits of the genome that directly encode proteins.
    — The Economist, 28 June 2018
  • So, some of the grammatical rules of math are about encoding deep truths.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The three lowest frequencies are used to encode language as a sound wave.
    — National Geographic, 16 May 2018
  • The human genome has three billion base pairs in its DNA, but only about 2% of them encode proteins.
    — Quanta Magazine, 1 Sep. 2021
  • For now, the patches can only encode a handful of simple shapes.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 18 Dec. 2019
  • But even within the parts of genes that encode proteins, the precise sequence shouldn't matter all that much.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 June 2022

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