Cypher

Definition: Cypher

Cypher

Noun

1. A mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number.

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".

3. A person of no influence.

4. A secret method of writing.

5. A message written in a secret code.

Verb

1. Convert ordinary language into code; "We should encode the message for security reasons".

2. Make a mathematical calculation or computation.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cypher" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references)

Computing

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Synonyms: Cypher

But I kept rhymin and stepwritin the next cypher (Lose Yourself; performing artist: EMINEM)

Johnny Cypher in Dimension Zero (1967)

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Books

• Biliteral Cypher of Sir Francis Bacon (reference)

• Catastrophe Practice: Plays for Not Acting, and Cypher, a Novel (reference)

• Cypher (reference)

• Motion of the Cypher (reference)

• Mr. Babbage's Secret: The Tale of a Cypher and Apl (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Cypher (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Expressions using "cypher": cypher alphabet ♦ cypher officer ♦ Cypher Science Ltd. Additional references.

Beginning with "cypher": cypher-decypher.

Albanian

zero (cipher, goose-egg, love, nil, Nix, nothing, nought, ought, zero), shifroj (cipher, code, encipher, encode), shifër (cipher, code, digit, figure, numeral), kodoj (cipher, code, encode), kod (Canon, cipher, code, law book, statute book). (various references)

Danish

chiffertekst (cipher, ciphertext, cyphertext). (various references)

Dutch

vercijferde tekst (cipher, ciphertext, cyphertext). (various references)

Finnish

salateksti (cipher, ciphertext, cryptogram, cyphertext). (various references)

French

texte chiffré (cyphertext). (various references)

German

chiffrierter Text (cipher, ciphertext, cyphertext), Chiffrat (cipher, ciphertext, cyphertext), verschlüsselter Text (cipher, ciphertext, cryptogram, cyphertext), Schlüsseltext (cipher, ciphertext, cryptogram, cyphertext), Kryptogramm (cryptogram), Geheimtext (cipher, ciphertext, cryptogram, cyphertext). (various references)

Greek 

κρυπτογράφημα (cipher, code, coded message, cryptograph), κρυπτογραφώ (cipher, code), κρυπτογραφημένο κείμενο (cipher, ciphertext, cryptogram, cyphertext), κρυπτογραφία (cipher), μηδενικό (cipher, nobody, nonentity, zero). (various references)

Hebrew 

מספר (digit, figure, number, quantity, sum), לשון סתרים (code, slander), ספר�" (digit, figure, number, numeral). (various references)

Hungarian

titkosírás (cipher, ciphering, code, cryptography), semmi ember (cipher, cur), rejtjelezés (cipher, ciphering, coding, decoding), rejtjelez (cipher, code, encipher, encode, to cipher, to cypher). (various references)

Italian

cifra (cipher, digit, figure, monogram, number, numeral), zero (cipher, naught, nil, nought, null, scratch, zero), monogramma (cipher, monogram). (various references)

Pig Latin

yphercay

Portuguese

criptograma (cipher, cryptogram, cryptograph), cifrar (cipher, code, encipher), cifra (aught, cipher, code, digit, figure, naught, number, numeral, pressmark), calcular (account, appraise, calculate, cast up, cipher, compute, count, estimate, evaluate, figure, figure out, gage, gauge, log, number, rate, reckon), zunido (cipher, hum, pressmark, ringing, tingle, whistle, zip), zero (cipher, naught, nil, nonentity, nothing, nought, null, o, ought, pressmark, zero, zilch), texto cifrado (cipher, ciphertext, cyphertext), pôr em cifra (cipher), monograma (cipher, pressmark). (various references)

Russian 

шифровальщик (cipher officer, coder, cryptographer, cypher officer). (various references)

Spanish

clave (cembalo, cipher, clef, code, crypt, harpsichord, key), cifrar (cipher, code, encipher, encode, pin on, scramble), cifra (cipher, digit, figure, number, numeral, quantity), cero (cipher, duck, love, naught, nil, nothing, nought, zero), código (cipher, code), texto cifrado (cipher, ciphertext, cyphertext), hacer cifra (cipher). (various references)

Swedish

kryptotext (cipher, ciphertext, cryptogram, cyphertext). (various references)

Turkish

sıfır (cipher, naught, nil, nothing, nought, null, o, ought, zero), şifre (cipher, code, code word, key word), önemsiz şey (bagatelle, bauble, iota, knickknack, makeweight, mickey mouse, molehill, nicknack, no big deal, picayune, rush, small beer, stiver, straw, toy, trifle, tuppence, twopence, unessential, unimportant thing). (various references)

Ukrainian

цифра (cipher, digit, figure, number, numeral, numeric), тайнопис (cipher, cryptogram, cryptography), шифрувати (cipher, codify, encode), шифр (cipher, code), обчислювати (calculate, compute, date, determine, figure out, numerate), ноль, зашифровувати (encipher, paraphrase). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "cypher": cyphered, cyphering, cyphers. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: crepy, hyper, perch.

-2 letters: hype, pech, prey, pyre, yech.

-3 letters: cep, cry, hep, her, hey, hyp, pec, peh, per, pry, pye, rec, rep, rye, yeh, yep.

-4 letters: eh, er, he, pe, re, ye.

+1 letter: cyphers, eparchy, preachy.

+2 letters: coryphee, cyphered, prophecy.

+3 letters: archetype, champerty, coryphaei, coryphees, cyphering, heptarchy, hyperacid, hypercube, hyperemic, hyperopic, hypocrite, pachyderm, pentarchy, preachify, preachily.

+4 letters: apothecary, archetypal, archetypes, copyholder, coryphaeus, hermatypic, hydrospace, hyperacute, hyperbaric, hyperbolic, hypercubes, hypergolic, hypermanic, hyperpneic, hypersonic, hyperspace, hypertonic, hypocenter, hypocrites, hypodermic, keypuncher, macrophyte, pachyderms, parenchyma, periphytic, phenocryst, phylactery, polychrome, sphericity, xerophytic.