Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A subtext; ideas or information that are assumed or implied but not explicitly coded.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences, semiotics
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noun
A secret message included in another message or stream of data.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A code (which represents a datum) that is grouped with other codes into a final encoding.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: research methods
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verb
To communicate using codes that do not convey the entire message, but which rely on the recipient's construction of meaning through connotation or subtexts.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences, semiotics
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verb
To use or convey (a message) in a way that requires the recipient to construct part of the meaning.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences, semiotics
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verb
To communicate (information) indirectly, by means of an undercode.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences, semiotics
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verb
To encode a secret message that is masked by a surface message or stream of data.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To represent by a code that indicates a lower level of service than what was provided.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To use fewer codes than are needed to fully describe something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
From under- + code.
