cipher
/ˈsaɪfər/
noun
- A secret system of writing, used to hide the meaning of a message; a code.
- Breaking the enemy's cipher took the codebreakers months.
- In the game, players must solve a cipher to unlock the treasure.
- The spy used a simple cipher to encode her messages.
- A person or thing of no importance; a nobody.
- She refused to be a cipher in her own life.
- In the huge corporation, he felt like a cipher.
- The new intern was treated as a cipher by the senior staff.
- The mathematical symbol (0) representing zero; a zero.
- In Roman numerals, there is no cipher for zero.
- He wrote a cipher to show the empty column.
- The number 100 has two ciphers after the one.
verb
- To encode or convert a message into a secret code.
- The agent learned how to cipher messages quickly.
- Please cipher this document before sending it.
- They used a special algorithm to cipher the data.
- To do arithmetic; to calculate using numbers.
- He could cipher in his head faster than most people.
- Before calculators, everyone had to cipher by hand.
- The students learned to cipher with paper and pencil.
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