Encrypt

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  encrypt \encrypt\ v. t.
     To convert ordinary language or other data into code; to hide
     the meaning of a message by converting it into a form that
     cannot be interpreted without knowing the secret method for
     interpretation, called the key; to encode.
  


     Syn: encode, code, encipher, cipher, cypher, inscribe, write
          in code.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  encrypt
       v : convert ordinary language into code; "We should encode the
           message for security reasons" [syn: {encode}, {code}, {encipher},
            {cipher}, {cypher}, {inscribe}, {write in code}] [ant: {decode}]