Cipher Very Common

Cipher has 9 different meanings across 2 categories:

Definitions

Noun

a message written in a secret code

"The detective spent hours trying to crack the cipher hidden inside the stolen letter before he could discover who was behind the crime."

cipher cypher

a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number

"In modular arithmetic, adding zero acts as the cipher because it leaves any other number unchanged."

zero 0 nought cipher cypher

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"

nothing nil nix nada null aught cipher cypher goose egg naught zero zilch zip zippo

a person of no influence

"Despite his flashy suit, he was just a cipher in the meeting and never got to speak up for himself."

cipher cypher nobody nonentity

a secret method of writing

"The spy tried to decipher the message, but the code was too complex for anyone outside their group to understand as a cipher."

cipher cypher cryptograph secret code

A numeric character.

"The security expert noticed that the encrypted message contained a cipher instead of the expected letter."

Verb

convert ordinary language into code

"We should encode the message for security reasons"

code encipher cipher cypher encrypt inscribe write in code

make a mathematical calculation or computation

"The engineer had to cipher the complex load-bearing equations before constructing the bridge."

calculate cipher cypher compute work out reckon figure

To calculate.

"The cryptographer used a cipher to decrypt the encrypted message and reveal its hidden content."

Example Sentences

"it looked like nothing I had ever seen before" noun

"reduced to nil all the work we had done" noun

"we racked up a pathetic goose egg" noun

"it was all for naught" noun

"I didn't hear zilch about it" noun

"We should encode the message for security reasons" verb