Cipher (Noun)
Meaning 1
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".
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Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.
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Meaning 2
A person of no influence.
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Nouns denoting people.
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Meaning 3
A secret method of writing.
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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
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Meaning 4
A message written in a secret code.
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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The spy sent a cipher to her contact, hoping it would go undetected by enemy agents.
- The cryptographer spent years trying to crack the ancient cipher etched into the stone tablet.
- The message was encoded in a complex cipher that only a handful of people could decipher.
- The cipher was hidden in a seemingly innocuous poem, its true meaning only apparent to those who knew the code.
- The codebreaker's eyes widened as she finally deciphered the cipher, revealing a shocking plot to overthrow the government.