cypher

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cypher

A spy carefully decodes the cypher to read the secret message.

Definition

  1. Noun:

    • A secret or disguised way of writing; a code: A system for concealing the meaning of a message by replacing its letters or words with others according to a key.
    • A person or thing of no importance or value: Someone or something considered insignificant or having zero influence.
    • The symbol 0; zero; nil: The mathematical digit representing no quantity.
    • A monogram or interwoven design: A decorative figure consisting of letters, typically initials, combined together.

  2. Verb:

    • To calculate or compute arithmetically: To perform a mathematical operation.
    • To write in or convert into a secret code: To encipher or encrypt a message.
Examples of Usage

  • Noun:

    • The spy sent the instructions in a complex cypher.
    • He felt like a mere cypher in the large, impersonal corporation.
    • The final score was a disappointing cypher.
    • Her family cypher was engraved on the silver ring.

  • Verb:

    • Can you cypher the total cost for this project?
    • The agent had to cypher the sensitive document before transmission.
Advanced Usage
  • "To be a cypher for": To serve as a symbol or representation of something else, often something abstract.
    • In the novel, the empty house is a cypher for the protagonist's loneliness.
Variants and Related Words
  • Cipher: This is the more common modern spelling for all meanings of "cypher". The words are fully interchangeable.
  • Encipher (verb): To convert a message into a cipher. (e.g., )
  • Decipher (verb): To convert a message from a cipher back into ordinary language; to decode. (e.g., )
Synonyms
  • Noun (code): Code, cryptograph.
  • Noun (zero): Zero, nil, nothing, naught, zilch, goose egg.
  • Noun (nonentity): Nobody, nonentity, zero.
  • Verb (calculate): Calculate, compute, reckon, figure.
  • Verb (encode): Encode, encrypt, encipher.
Related Phrases
  • A broken cypher: A code that has been or can be deciphered.
    • The enemy's messages were useless once they became a broken cypher.
Related Idioms
  • A cypher in the wheel: An insignificant or unnoticed part of a larger system. (A variation of "a cog in the machine").
    • He was tired of being treated as just a cypher in the wheel of the bureaucracy.
cypher

A spy carefully decodes the cypher to read the secret message.

Noun
  1. a message written in a secret code
  2. a secret method of writing
  3. a person of no influence
  4. a quantity of no importance
    • it looked like nothing I had ever seen before
    • 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
  5. a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
Verb
  1. make a mathematical calculation or computation
  2. convert ordinary language into code
    • We should encode the message for security reasons

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