What's the difference between decipher and depict?

Decipher


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To translate from secret characters or ciphers into intelligible terms; as, to decipher a letter written in secret characters.
  • (v. t.) To find out, so as to be able to make known the meaning of; to make out or read, as words badly written or partly obliterated; to detect; to reveal; to unfold.
  • (v. t.) To stamp; to detect; to discover.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Outside of human resources matters, they cover changes to services; reconfiguration of services; deciphering all the rules and regulations so that people can do their jobs; interpreting the complicated rules around commissioning care; commercial deals; inquests and dealing with families; and supporting clinical staff in making the right decision in the best interest of the patient.
  • (2) To date, a disproportionate amount of effort may have been spent on deciphering putative intracellular regulatory mechanisms, without knowing some essential fundamental properties of the Na+-Pi-COT.
  • (3) Furthermore, the abundance of synaptic proteins makes the electrocyte a unique model with which to decipher the mechanisms involved in the sorting and targeting of these glycoproteins.
  • (4) The results of this study show that APB can be a powerful tool for pharmacologically deciphering the functional connections that exist between outer and inner retinal neurons.
  • (5) But one of the giants of DNA, James Watson, who won the Nobel prize for deciphering the structure of DNA in 1953, writes in the Guardian today: "To our vast relief, the publicly supported effort received not less but more money.
  • (6) Several features demonstrate that a unique class of ribosomes exists in this organism, and a study of these ribosomes will be important to decipher special features of translational regulation, and evolution of the organelle in the eukaryotic kingdom.
  • (7) Some previously unknown types of structural disorders in DNA molecule have been discovered, some repair genes isolated and their primary structure established, some aspects of radiation mutagenesis elucidated, and research into deciphering the molecular bases of neoplastic transformations of exposed cells are being successfully investigated.
  • (8) Reading through interpretation entails deciphering the text according to certain definite rules.
  • (9) To decipher the early events preceding the re-entry of somatic cells into the cell cycle, we constructed a cDNA library from 6-h-old protoplasts of Nicotiana sylvestris.
  • (10) By analyzing the synaptic relationships of such "darkened" dendrites, connections in the upper dorsal horn can be deciphered.
  • (11) Yet the headline piece of provocation was threaded in the visitors’ colours, and foreign media were quickly scrambling for the history books – and the dictionary – upon deciphering the word printed at the bottom of it.
  • (12) Another task was to decipher a number of metabolic signs of the phenomenon of CHD "exacerbation" in laser therapy (during 4-6 sessions).
  • (13) If you are not capable of being able to decipher between lobbying and fact, and if we are incapable of politicians to see both sides of the argument, then that's a fault that we have."
  • (14) 50% were unable to accurately explain to what the initials AIDS refer, and only 2 could decipher HIV+.
  • (15) PUT THAT IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT "A few years back you helped me decipher the logo of Paris Saint-Germain," writes Tom Haslam.
  • (16) The Na+, K+-ATPase isolation as a "functionally intact unit" would probably make an essential contribution to deciphering the molecular mechanism of the Na+ and K+ transport through biomembranes.
  • (17) Chicken prolactin receptor (cPRLR) deciphered from the cDNA sequence showed a unique double antenna structure in its extracellular domain.
  • (18) Many DNA sequences have been studied by X-ray crystallography with the goal of deciphering a sequence-structure code.
  • (19) (It's quite easy to decipher: Romanian looks like Esperanto.)
  • (20) Examination of the proteolytic processing and compartmentalization of the primary translation products of apolipoprotein mRNAs represents one approach to deciphering the molecular details of lipoprotein assembly.

Depict


Definition:

  • (p. p.) Depicted.
  • (p. p.) Depicted.
  • (v. t.) To form a colored likeness of; to represent by a picture; to paint; to portray.
  • (v. t.) To represent in words; to describe vividly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sequelae of chemo- and radiotherapy were only depicted by magnetic resonance imaging.
  • (2) Histochemical and immunocytochemical staining of the outgrowths with reagents that depict epithelial, myoepithelial, and lactating alveolar cells (peanut lectin alone, monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies to rat caseins) indicate similar cell compositions and arrangements for all outgrowths irrespective of their source; these are also similar to the mammary glands of the perphenazine-stimulated or lactating hosts.
  • (3) The planned development (october 1989) is also depicted.
  • (4) The authors' experience suggests the following as the optimal follow-up: a) CT examination over a 6-month postoperative period; b) yearly CT examinations and urography over 4 postoperative years; c) yearly US examination over the first 2 years after surgery, to depict renal pelvis dilatation.
  • (5) They have been interpreted to indicate pools of cholesterol in fast or slow equilibrium with serum and generally depicted as representing groups of tissues.
  • (6) In Experiment 1 subjects viewed a slide sequence depicting a traffic accident.
  • (7) The sequence is described and its performance assessed with regard to (a) depiction of in-plane flow, (b) fat suppression, and (c) venous saturation.
  • (8) An image depicting the British prime minister, David Cameron, is held by a protester during a rally at the former test drill site operated by Cuadrilla Resources in Balcombe.
  • (9) Repeating his conference speech , he said he’d step in to boost growth, which was weaker than many commentators had depicted.
  • (10) From Africa, the archbishop of Kenya warned "the devil has entered the church", while a few days before the ceremony Robinson received a postcard from England, depicting the high altar of Durham cathedral and bearing the message: "You fornicating, lecherous pig."
  • (11) Drawings by women alcoholics of the self, a murderer, the murderer's victim and victim's parent revealed conscious and unconscious identification with the depicted roles.
  • (12) The first eigenvector, when represented by grey scale maps depicting a pair of eyes, reveals that, as average threshold increases, the visual field rises and flattens, like an umbrella that, initially closed, is simultaneously opened and thrust upwards.
  • (13) Tier one comprises the nosological diagnosis, and tier two a detailed depiction of the component psychological dysfunctions.
  • (14) A regression equation is depicted, making it possible to identify a group at risk for a possible grave course of disease among patients with chronic glomerulonephritis.
  • (15) These are the first western depictions of our animals, and what they represent are the inception of the specific cultural politics which your nation forced on my continent, its land and its people with unhesitating colonial brutality.
  • (16) The depicted disorders were divided into 4 groups: the upper form of Duchenne-Erb--48 cases; the lower forms of Dejerine-Klumpke--27 cases; total forms--31 cases and bilateral forms--12 cases.
  • (17) Using image analysis, the growth on the plates was depicted as three-dimensional wire frame graphs.
  • (18) Inside, the tiles and the stained glass are said to be perfection, matched against murals that depict the inventions of the industrial revolution and the signing of the Magna Carta.
  • (19) Thus, BMIPP is surmised to be able to depict fatty acid metabolism in in vivo myocardial imaging.
  • (20) Correlation with x-ray angiography or surgery demonstrated the ability of MR angiography to accurately depict the status of runoff vessels.