Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cypher"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cypher \Cy"pher\ (s?"f?r), n. & v.
See {Cipher}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
cypher
n 1: a mathematical element that when added to another number
yields the same number [syn: {zero}, {0}, {nought}, {cipher}]
2: 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" [syn: {nothing},
{nil}, {nix}, {nada}, {null}, {aught}, {cipher}, {goose
egg}, {naught}, {zero}, {zilch}, {zip}]
3: a person of no influence [syn: {cipher}, {nobody}, {nonentity}]
4: a secret method of writing [syn: {cipher}, {cryptograph}, {secret
code}]
5: a message written in a secret code [syn: {cipher}]
v 1: convert ordinary language into code; "We should encode the
message for security reasons" [syn: {encode}, {code}, {encipher},
{cipher}, {encrypt}, {inscribe}, {write in code}] [ant:
{decode}]
2: make a mathematical calculation or computation [syn: {calculate},
{cipher}, {compute}, {work out}, {reckon}, {figure}]
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