What's the difference between decipherable and indecipherable?

Decipherable


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being deciphered; as, old writings not decipherable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Obliterated bloody impressions are occasionally submitted to the crime laboratory, and potentially to the document examiner, for decipherment.
  • (2) Analogous, albeit less readily decipherable, spectroscopic effects with the ligands imidazole and alkyl isocyanides suggest that on reduction of cytochrome a an interaction occurs between the two haem groups involving (i) a high- to low-spin change in cytochrome a(3), and after this, (ii) a change in the molecular environment of the cytochrome a.
  • (3) This observation suggests that the information for apical surface localization is inherent in the DPPIV molecule itself and that this sorting information is decipherable in the epithelial cells of a different species.
  • (4) That was one of the more easily decipherable statements delivered by the international band of riders flinging themselves down the vertiginous 635m course on the Rosa Khutor mountainside and performing a series of tricks on rails and huge jumps on their way down.
  • (5) With their varying degrees of milquetoast managerialism, they were not only barely distinguishable from each other but had platforms that were forgettable even when they were decipherable.

Indecipherable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not decipherable; incapable of being deciphered, explained, or solved.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Gomatraciens awoke one July morning to an indecipherable low rumble as hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Hutus shuffled through the town, broken, exhausted and silent as they fled the Tutsi rebel victory across the border.
  • (2) He screams some indecipherable lines from the front row before clambering back onstage to whip his hair like a metaller.
  • (3) It's really easy to get carried away by the science and use technical vocabulary and indecipherable acronyms.
  • (4) He glances around the room, with its indecipherable glyph-strewn whiteboards.
  • (5) A decade later when I met him again in a hotel suite in London, it was more Mona Lisa than Cheshire Cat - coolly supercilious, ultimately indecipherable.
  • (6) It’s not about a platform to which no one hews, or about some words on a teleprompter, or even some indecipherable language in a bill.
  • (7) Not only is this an interesting location, it's also a good place for non-Japanese speakers to take a break from the aisles of aisles of indecipherable domestic games.
  • (8) You will see greatly reduced resources available to make critical legal needs across the United States.” Advocates say legal services funding is essential because equality before the law is not possible in a system that is indecipherable for non-professionals and in which one side almost always has lawyers while the other side almost always does not.
  • (9) Meanwhile, the crackling was so bad I could hardly use it – and messages left were indecipherable, leading me to exceed my limit on my mobile phone.
  • (10) And, the biggest group this, there are Polish and eastern European builders, shouting indecipherable jokes, ready for their prompt Saturday morning start, jumping off to plaster and marble and artfully distress the kitchens and bathrooms of the £10m houses that edge the heath along this route.
  • (11) "And so immediately thereafter," she says, "all of the toys began to have shows associated with them, and the ties between the toy industry and the entertainment industry became virtually indecipherable.
  • (12) Called the Jolly Roger, its walls were lined with real cutlasses and its leatherette-bound menus were decorated with compass points and written in an indecipherable copperplate script that made ordering an ice-cream float feel like a hunt for buried treasure.
  • (13) His handwriting, which I knew before meeting him (having seen it in facsimiles, in autographs), had become almost indecipherable, but its message was as luminous as can be: "My deceased, you may imagine, are all those ancestors I remember (very few) and all those I am unable to (the great majority).
  • (14) If it's not an error quite up there with that of the London gopher who, tasked with processing Robert Capa 's photographs from the Normandy landings, went for a too-liquid lunch and left them in the drying-oven an hour too long and thus rendered them all but indecipherable, it still, historically, irks.
  • (15) The Fabian report has some interesting analysis, but no solutions other than chasing an indecipherable “cultural ‘middle’”.
  • (16) I filled endless diary pages, sent snail mail to several pen pals, even invented secret symbols to ensure notes passed in the classroom were indecipherable by enemy eyes.

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