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cipher

/sahy-fer/US // ˈsaɪ fər //UK // (ˈsaɪfə) //

密码,破译,破解

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : zero.
    • : any of the Arabic numerals or figures.
    • : Arabic numerical notation collectively.
    • : something of no value or importance.
    • : a person of no influence; nonentity.
    • : a secret method of writing, as by transposition or substitution of letters, specially formed symbols, or the like.Compare cryptography.
    • : writing done by such a method; a coded message.
    • : the key to a secret method of writing.
    • : a combination of letters, as the initials of a name, in one design; monogram.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to use figures or numerals arithmetically.
    • : to write in or as in cipher.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to calculate numerically; figure.
    • : to convert into cipher.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • So, the curious ciphers and clues in these paintings situate their subjects within a complex web of cultural and political change.

  • Most frustrating of all is the show’s saintly cipher of a hero.

  • Women who knew the ciphers were not to fall into enemy hands.

  • One night in February 1940, after a fruitless day attacking the cipher, Herivel fell asleep in an armchair in front of his fireplace.

  • The 1877 commission formed to decide the election had subpoenaed copies of over 30,000 telegrams, many of them written in cipher.

  • Being something of a political cipher may have helped Revels rise to prominence.

  • He is a cipher who has reduced his own party to near-cipher status.

  • The Scientists profusely apologized when I left the table at which they had their Cipher.

  • But what of all those people watching at home, waiting for Ann to explain the cipher that is Mittens?

  • How else to explain the astounding fact that this cynical cipher is now more or less neck and neck with Obama in the polls?

  • The figure value of “sew,” therefore equals or is represented by a cipher .

  • A will may be found, or my uncle's marriage proved; in either case, I sink back into the cipher I was before.

  • In those old days when I was thrown much with this man, he had shown me a curious cipher and taught me how to use it.

  • So the duke said it was kind of hard to have to lay roped all day, and he'd cipher out some way to get around it.

  • He l'arned to read, en when Maizie came, he l'arned to write en cipher after he was a grown man.