encode

(verb)

to turn one's ideas into spoken language in order to transmit them to listeners

Related Terms

  • message
  • Decode

Examples of encode in the following topics:

  • Speaker

    • A sender is someone who encodes and sends a message to a receiver through a particular channel.
    • When you think about how you craft your speech, you're actually encoding your message.
  • What to Do with Your Knowledge

    • The speaker engages a process of encoding his or her ideas from thoughts into words, and of forming a message which is then delivered to an audience.
    • To better imagine this process, consider the example of encoding and decoding as it applies to the idea of a tree.
    • I use the word tree to encode my idea, and because my audience has experienced similar trees, they decode the word tree in the way that I intended .
    • However, I may be thinking about a tree (a palm tree) that is in Hawaii, where I used to live, when I use the word tree to encode my idea.
  • Make Messages Easy to Remember

    • Memory refers to the process by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved.
  • Make Adjustments

    • If the speaker comes from a different language culture than the audience or speaks a different dialect, he or she must be careful to select phrases and words that the audience would use to encode the speech's message.
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