cipher — Słownik języka angielskiego

Rzeczownik

1. A numeric character.

   Użycie

   • przestarzałe

   Synonimy

   numbernumeraldigit

2. Any text character.

   Użycie

   • wyszłe z użycia

   Przykłady

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   In ſucceeding times this vnderſtanding wiſedome began to be written in Ciphers, and Characters, and letters bearing the forme of beaſtes, birds, and other creatures; […]

3. A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name.

   Użycie

   • archaiczne

   Synonimy

   devicemonogram

   Przykłady

   a painter's cipher

   an engraver's cipher

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   Just then, an attendant to whom the Queen had whispered returned; and taking a small case from her hand, Anne produced a bracelet somewhat similar to the very one with which Francesca had parted, excepting that it had her cipher, surrounded by a wreath of fleurs-de-lis. "Louis, will you offer this to Mademoiselle Carrara?"

4. A method of transforming a text in order to conceal its meaning.

   Synonimy

   code

   Przykłady

   The message was written in a simple cipher. Anyone could figure it out.

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   He was very early engaged in great ſecrets: For his fatherr, apprehending of what fatal conſequence it would have been to the King’s affairs if his correſpondence had been diſcovered by unfaithful Secretaries, engaged him when very young to write all his letters to England in cypher; ſo that he was generally half the day writing in cypher, or decyphering, and was ſo diſcrect, as well as faithful, that nothing was ever diſcovered by him.

5. A cryptographic system using an algorithm that converts letters or sequences of bits into ciphertext.

   Przykłady

   a public-key cipher

6. Ciphertext; a message concealed via a cipher.

   Przykłady

   The message is clearly a cipher, but I can't figure it out.

7. A grouping of three digits in a number, especially when delimited by commas or periods.

   Użycie

   • wyszłe z użycia

   Przykłady

   The probability is 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000 — a number having five ciphers of zeros.

8. A fault in an organ valve which causes a pipe to sound continuously without the key having been pressed.

9. A hip-hop jam session.

   Użycie

   • slangowe

   Przykłady

   They say no girls in the cipher, so I rock solo

10. The path (usually circular) shared cannabis takes through a group, an occasion of cannabis smoking.

    Użycie

    • slangowe

    Synonimy

    rotation

    Przykłady

    As the night seemed darker, cops is on a hunt / They interrupt your cipher, and crush your blunt

11. Someone or something of no importance.

    Użycie

    • przestarzałe

    Synonimy

    nobodynonentitynothing

    Przykłady

    There he was a mere cypher: here he was lord of the ascendant; the choice spirit, the dominant genius.

12. Zero.

    Użycie

    • przestarzałe

    Przykłady

    O pardon: ſince a crooked Figure may / Atteſt in little place a Million, / And let vs, Cyphers to this great Accompt, / On your imaginarie Forces worke.

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    Firſt, Find what Decimal of a Pound .625 will Repreſent, which is eaſily done if you prepone a Cypher, and half the Number is the Decimal of a Pound. The Number with a Cypher preponed is .0625, ½ is .03125.

    We saw earlier about this new symbol, the cipher, that can make numbers big.

Czasownik

1. To calculate.

   Użycie

   • przestarzałe
   • nieprzechodnie
   • regionalne

   Przykłady

   I never learned much more than how to read and cipher.

   For the mischief that one blockhead, that every blockhead does, in a world so feracious, teeming with endless results as ours, no ciphering will sum up.

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   So I must baffle at the hint / And cipher at the sign, / And make much blunder, if at last / I take the clew divine.

   Can you cipher too—along with your reading and writing?

2. To write in code or cipher.

   Użycie

   • nieprzechodnie

3. Of an organ pipe: to sound independent of the organ.

   Użycie

   • nieprzechodnie

4. To decipher.

   Użycie

   • wyszłe z użycia

   Przykłady

   Yea the illiterate that know not how To cipher what is writ in learned bookes, VVill cote my lothſome treſpaſſe in my lookes.

Rzeczownik

1. a message written in a secret code

   Synonimy

   cypher

   Terminy szersze

   message

2. a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number

   Synonimy

   zeronoughtcypher

   Terminy szersze

   digitfigure

3. a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential

   Synonimy

   nothingnilnixnadanullaughtcyphergoose eggnaughtzerozilchzipzippo

   Terminy szersze

   relative quantity

   Przykłady

   it looked like nothing I had ever seen before

   reduced to nil all the work we had done

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   we racked up a pathetic goose egg

   it was all for naught

   I didn't hear zilch about it

4. a person of no influence

   Synonimy

   cyphernobodynonentity

   Terminy szersze

   commonercommon person

5. a secret method of writing

   Synonimy

   cyphercryptographsecret code

   Terminy szersze

   code

Czasownik

1. convert ordinary language into code

   Synonimy

   codeenciphercypherencryptinscribewrite in code

   Terminy szersze

   encode

   Przykłady

   We should encode the message for security reasons

2. make a mathematical calculation or computation

   Synonimy

   calculatecyphercomputework outreckonfigure

   Terminy szersze

   reason