英语词汇“cipher”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

cipher

释义

a method of transforming a text in order to conceal its meaning; a code

a message in code

a key to such a code

a combination of symbolic letters, esp a monogram

archaic = zero¹ (1)

somebody who or something that has no worth or influence; a nonentity

‘There I shall see mine own figure.’ ‘Which I take to be either a fool or a cipher’ — Shakespeare

any of the Arabic numerals

[Middle English from early French cifre via medieval Latin from Arabic ṣifr empty, cipher, zero]

to encode (something)

to compute (something) arithmetically

NAmer, archaic to figure (something) out

Leave me alone to cipher out a way — Mark Twain

verb intrans

chiefly NAmer, archaic to make arithmetical or other calculations; to figure

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