cypher
/ˈsaɪfər/
verb
- To write or convert a message into a secret code.
- The software can cypher your emails so no one else can read them.
- I learned how to cypher simple messages using a substitution alphabet.
- The general ordered his assistant to cypher the battle plans before sending them.
- To calculate or work out using arithmetic; to compute.
- The students were asked to cypher the answer to the long division problem.
- She cyphered the total cost in her head before reaching the register.
- The accountant spent the afternoon cyphering the company's expenses.
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noun
- A secret system of writing, or a message written in such a system, that uses letters or symbols to hide the meaning.
- Breaking the enemy's cypher took the codebreakers many months.
- She learned a simple cypher to write notes that her little brother couldn't understand.
- The spy sent the message in a cypher that only the agent could read.
- A person or thing that has no importance or influence; a nobody.
- In the huge corporation, he felt like a cypher, easily replaced.
- After the scandal, the former leader became a political cypher.
- The quiet student was treated as a cypher by the popular kids.
- The number zero (0).
- In math class, we learned that a cypher can change the value of other numbers.
- The scoreboard showed a big cypher after the team failed to score.
- He added a cypher to the end of the number to make it ten times larger.
- A monogram or decorative design made by combining letters, especially initials.
- She designed a beautiful cypher of her and her husband's initials for their wedding.
- The silver spoon had an ornate cypher on the handle.
- The royal cypher was embroidered on the king's handkerchief.