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cipher
English
Alternative forms
- (less common) cypher
Etymology
14th century. From Middle English cifre, from Old French cyfre, cyffre (French chiffre), ultimately from Arabic ?????? (?ifr, “zero, empty”), from ??????? (?afara, “to be empty”). Doublet of zero. Sense 9 may be a different word.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ci?pher
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?sa?f?/
- (US, Canada) enPR: ?s?-f?r, IPA(key): /?sa?f?/
- Rhymes: -a?f?(r)
Noun
cipher (plural ciphers)
- A numeric character.
- Any text character.
- This understanding wisdom began to be written in ciphers and characters and letters bearing the forms of creatures.
- A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name; a device; a monogram.
- a painter's cipher, an engraver's cipher, etc.
- A method of transforming a text in order to conceal its meaning.
- The message was written in a simple cipher. Anyone could figure it out.
- His father […] engaged him when he was very young to write all his letters to England in cipher.
- (cryptography) A cryptographic system using an algorithm that converts letters or sequences of bits into ciphertext.
- Ciphertext; a message concealed via a cipher.
- The message is clearly a cipher, but I can't figure it out.
- A grouping of three digits in a number, especially when delimited by commas or periods:
- The probability is 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000 — a number having five ciphers of zeros.
- (music) A fault in an organ valve which causes a pipe to sound continuously without the key having been pressed.
- A hip-hop jam session.
- The path (usually circular) shared cannabis takes through a group, an occasion of cannabis smoking.
- Someone or something of no importance; a nonentity
- There he was a mere cipher.
- (dated) Zero.
Synonyms
- (numeric character): number, numeral
- (method for concealing the meaning of text): code
- (cryptographic system using an algorithm):
- (ciphertext):
- (a grouping of three digits in a number, especially when delimited):
- (design of interlacing initials): monogram
- (fault in an organ valve causing a pipe to sound continuously):
- (hip-hop jam session):
- (path that shared cannabis takes through a group):
- (someone or something of no importance): (person): nobody, nonentity, see also Thesaurus:nonentity; (thing) nonentity, nothing, nullity
- (obsolete: zero): naught/nought, nothing, oh, zero
Derived terms
Related terms
- zero
Translations
Verb
cipher (third-person singular simple present ciphers, present participle ciphering, simple past and past participle ciphered)
- (intransitive, regional, dated) To calculate.
- I never learned much more than how to read and cipher.
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. IX, Abbot Samson
- For the mischief that one blockhead, that every blockhead does, in a world so feracious, teeming with endless results as ours, no ciphering will sum up.
- 1979, Octavia Butler, Kindred:
- Can you cipher too—along with your reading and writing?
- (intransitive) To write in code or cipher.
- (intransitive, music) Of an organ pipe: to sound independent of the organ.
- (obsolete) To decipher.
References
Anagrams
- ceriph, chipre, rechip
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- what cipher uses letters and numbers
- what cipher means
- what ciphers does gpg support
- what cipher has letters and numbers
- what ciphers use numbers
- what cipher uses symbols
- what cipher is my certificate using
crypto
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k??pt??/
- Rhymes: -?pt??
Noun
crypto (countable and uncountable, plural cryptos)
- A secret supporter or follower.
- (uncountable, informal) Clipping of cryptography.
- 2004, Chey Cobb, Cryptography For Dummies (page 20)
- The CIA is also very into crypto (which makes sense, as they are the home of spy versus spy), […]
- 2004, Chey Cobb, Cryptography For Dummies (page 20)
- (informal, cryptocurrencies) Clipping of cryptocurrency.
- (informal, medicine) Clipping of cryptococcus.
- (informal, medicine) Clipping of cryptosporidiosis.
Derived terms
- crypto wallet
Adjective
crypto (comparative more crypto, superlative most crypto)
- Secret or covert.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Related terms
- crypto-
Latin
Noun
crypt?
- dative singular of crypton
- ablative singular of crypton
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- what cryptocurrency to mine
- what cryptocurrency is backed by gold
- what crypto is on robinhood
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