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Cipher   /sˈaɪfər/   Listen
Cipher

noun
1.
A message written in a secret code.  Synonym: cypher.
2.
A mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number.  Synonyms: 0, cypher, nought, zero.
3.
A quantity of no importance.  Synonyms: aught, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo.  "Reduced to nil all the work we had done" , "We racked up a pathetic goose egg" , "It was all for naught" , "I didn't hear zilch about it"
4.
A person of no influence.  Synonyms: cypher, nobody, nonentity.
5.
A secret method of writing.  Synonyms: cryptograph, cypher, secret code.
verb
(past & past part. ciphered; pres. part. ciphering)
1.
Convert ordinary language into code.  Synonyms: code, cypher, encipher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code.
2.
Make a mathematical calculation or computation.  Synonyms: calculate, compute, cypher, figure, reckon, work out.





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"Cipher" Quotes from Famous Books



... maps and sketches, that doesn't mean that they would make everything on them so plain that you could guess it at first sight. That sort of mark is awfully easy to understand when you have the key, but it's as bad as a cipher if you haven't." ...
— The Belgians to the Front • Colonel James Fiske
... for an old Blue-Gown! Think on the act 1701 regulating bail-bonds!Strike off a cipher from the sumI am content to bail him ...
— The Antiquary, Complete • Sir Walter Scott
... supply the Spaniards with provisions. Lavezaris asks that more married men be sent to the islands. Some remarkably fine pearls have been obtained near Bantayan. He asks the viceroy to provide him with a cipher code ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 - Volume III, 1569-1576 • E.H. Blair
... ledge, "if ever you wants a chap to do you a turn, don't ye forget there's one inside this waistcoat as will take a leap in a halter any day to please ye. You drop a line to 'Gentleman Jim,' at the Sunflower, High Holborn. O! I can read, bless ye, and write and cipher too. What I says I sticks to. No offence, miss. I wonder will ...
— M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." • G.J. Whyte-Melville
... lowest depths of vileness, become an unspeakable cipher of cowardice and servility—she signed endless lists of crimes which she had never committed. Was she worth the trouble of burning? Many had given up that idea, but the ruthless Penitentiary clung to it still. He offered money to a Wizard ...
— La Sorciere: The Witch of the Middle Ages • Jules Michelet


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