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cipher

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noun

ci·​pher ˈsī-fər How to pronounce cipher (audio)
often attributive
1
a
: zero sense 1a
b
: one that has no weight, worth, or influence : nonentity
It was an odd fact that the financier, a cipher in his own home, could impress all sorts of people at the office. P. G. Wodehouse
Why did the family, I wondered, act as if Rita hardly existed? Was she that much of a cipher? Andrew M. Greeley
2
a
: a method of transforming a text in order to conceal its meaning
secret communications written in cipher
compare code sense 3b
b
: a message in code
The cipher cannot be decoded without the key.
3
: arabic numeral
4
: a combination of symbolic letters
especially : the interwoven initials of a name
coins that bore the cipher of the sultan

cipher

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verb

ciphered; ciphering ˈsī-f(ə-)riŋ How to pronounce cipher (audio)

intransitive verb

: to use figures in a mathematical process
all children should learn to read, write, and cipher M. Pattison

transitive verb

1
: encipher
ciphered the letters that passed between the two heads of state
2
: to compute arithmetically
ciphered out the sum in his head

Synonyms

Noun

Verb

Example Sentences

Noun a cipher that can't be decoded She was nothing more than a cipher. Verb were surprised by how much we had spent on the cruise after we had ciphered out the grand total
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
Despite her 70-year reign, only about 60% of the country’s post boxes were installed under Queen Elizabeth, according to the Royal Mail, while 15% remain from the time of George V, and even some remain bearing the cipher of Queen Victoria. Eliot Brown, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2022 But a cipher is only as strong as its weakest link. WIRED, 19 Aug. 2022 The Playfair cipher is an incredibLe code system that is both difficult to decrypt without a computer and easily solvable by hand. Richard Malena, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2022 And Elvis himself remains a cipher, a symbol, more myth than flesh and blood. New York Times, 23 June 2022 That means encryption at rest, in transit and, when feasible, during processing, using cryptographically sound cipher suites. Expert Panel®, Forbes, 4 Aug. 2022 In 2019, Braganza, who specializes in unraveling literary mysteries, deciphered a separate Renaissance-era cipher created by Lady Mary Wroth, one of England’s first woman fiction writers. Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 July 2022 The exhibition, which runs from July 7 to September 26, also includes the Robe of Estate, which features intricate gold embroidery, and the monarch's EIIR cipher. Monique Jessen, PEOPLE.com, 6 July 2022 Ici repose Dookie—just that single name, once known to everyone, now a cipher. Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022
Verb
These remnants, signals from an earlier phase of our human condition, have been endlessly ciphered by generations of archaeologists in the Bears Ears region (which is named for twin buttes near its center). Stephen Nash, New York Times, 25 July 2017 See More

Word History

Etymology

Noun and Verb

Middle English, from Medieval Latin cifra, from Arabic ṣifr empty, cipher, zero

First Known Use

Noun

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Verb

circa 1530, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense

Time Traveler
The first known use of cipher was in the 14th century

Phrases Containing cipher

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