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词汇 cipher
释义 cipher
noun
uk /ˈsaɪ.fər/ us /ˈsaɪ.fɚ/

ciphernoun (SECRET LANGUAGE)


[ C or U ](alsocypher)
a system of writing that prevents most people from understanding the message: 密码;暗号
The message was written in cipher.电文是用密码写的。
Synonym
code(COMMUNICATION SYSTEM)
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Codes & decoding
bombe
code word
crack a code
cracker
cryptanalysis
cryptologist
cryptology
cypher
decode
decrypt
encode
encryption
passcode
QR code
scramble
scrambler
token
tokenize
uncoded
unscramble

ciphernoun (PERSON)


[ C ]formaldisapproving
a person or group of people without power, but used by others for their own purposes, or someone who is not important: 为人所利用的小人物;无名小卒;无足轻重的人
The interim government is a mere cipher for military rule.过渡政府不过是军事统治的一枚棋子。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

People of little importance
a cog in a/the machineidiom
be past your sell-by dateidiom
Cinderella
inferior
lightweight
mediocrity
minnow
nothing
pawn
pipsqueak
plaything
poor
poor relationidiom
pygmy
spear carrier
unknown
waste
waste of spaceidiom
waster
worm

ciphernoun (NUMBER)


[ C ]USold-fashioned
a zero: 零
If you have no children, enter a cipher in the space on the form.如果你没有孩子,在表上的空格里填零。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Numbers: cardinal, including nought & zero
B, b
bi
deca-
duodecillion
fifteen
five
forty
googol
jillion
kazillion
naught
nineteen
ninety
six
sixty
ten
thirty
twelve
unit
zillion

cipher | American Dictionary


cipher
noun[ C ]
us/ˈsɑɪ·fər/

ciphernoun[C] (SECRET WRITING)


a system of writing that most people cannot understand, so that the message is secret; a code:
We spent a lot of time figuring out the enemy’s cipher.

ciphernoun[C] (NOTHING)


a zero, or a person or thing that has no value or importance:
In the hands of a lesser actor, the role could have easily been a cipher.

Examples of cipher


cipher
In my judgment it is exactly eight ciphers too many.
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On the other hand, can one imagine a better way to create meaningless ciphers than to allow the party leaderships to appoint and re-appoint people?
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In the past, fire authorities have often been seen as rubber-stamping ciphers that merely approve what their chief officers want to do.
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Just one word or one group of ciphers—even one letter—lost can mean the nullification of months, perhaps even years, of cryptographic work.
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Elected councils have been turned into mere ciphers.
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They were mere ciphers and cogs in the state machine and there was absolutely no confidence in their professional ability or integrity.
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The whole trend of our modern society is away from the treatment of people as ciphers and towards recognition of their individual rights and claims.
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I am more and more alarmed every day at the degree to which we are becoming ciphers.
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The worker and the consumer are becoming ciphers.
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Members would not then be reduced to mere ciphers, as they are now.
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They feel that they are no longer counted as human souls but as ciphers and that their energies and abilities are being exploited.
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Are they to be mere ciphers in a mathematical calculation?
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We are not talking about ciphers, about people who are born cheats and who know how to get the best out of the system.
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They are not ciphers or rubber stamps; they are human beings.
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We do not know enough about unemployment, and to regard unemployed people as mere ciphers or units of economic possibility is nonsense.
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