cypher
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++cy·pher /ˈsaɪfə $ -ər/ noun [countable, uncountable] TCanother spelling of cipher cipher的另一种拼法
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cypher• He's brilliantly funny, there's nothing there, he's a cypher.• Some of it explicit, the rest hidden teasingly away - cyphers within cyphers - as if for his eyes alone.• It is one of eight in the Dolls' House, all worked with royal cyphers and the great orders of chivalry.• The King's cypher on the left-hand door of the Vauxhall.• Those differences formed the basis of the cypher.cy·pher nounChineseSyllable
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cypher
ci‧pher 
, cypher /ˈsaɪfə $ -ər/ noun
SYN code:
an expert in ciphers
messages written in cipher
2. [countable] someone who is not important and has no power or influence:
At work, she was a cipher, a functionary, nothing more.
3. [countable] literary the number 0
SYN zero
cy‧pher /ˈsaɪfə $ -ər/ noun [countable, uncountable]
another spelling of cipher
| I |
, cypher /ˈsaɪfə $ -ər/ noun Date: 1300-1400
Language: Old French
Origin: cifre, from Medieval Latin cifra, from Arabic sifr __empty, zero__
1. [uncountable and countable] formal a system of secret writing Language: Old French
Origin: cifre, from Medieval Latin cifra, from Arabic sifr __empty, zero__
SYN code:
2. [countable] someone who is not important and has no power or influence:
3. [countable] literary the number 0
SYN zero
| II |
noun [countable, uncountable]another spelling of cipher