Definitions for cipher

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cipher ci·pher

Spelling: [sahy-fer]

IPA: /ˈsaɪ fər/

Cipher is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 108 anagrams from letters in cipher (cehipr).

Definitions for cipher

noun

1. zero.
2. any of the Arabic numerals or figures.
3. Arabic numerical notation collectively.
4. something of no value or importance.
5. a person of no influence; nonentity.
6. a secret method of writing, as by transposition or substitution of letters, specially formed symbols, or the like. Compare cryptography.
7. writing done by such a method; a coded message.
8. the key to a secret method of writing.
9. a combination of letters, as the initials of a name, in one design; monogram.

verb (used with object)

1. to calculate numerically; figure.
2. to convert into cipher.

verb (used without object)

1. to use figures or numerals arithmetically.
2. to write in or as in cipher.

Origin of cipher

1350-1400; Middle English siphre Medieval Latin ciphra Arabic ṣifr empty, zero; translation of Sanskrit śūnyā empty

Examples for cipher

He is a cipher who has reduced his own party to near-cipher status.

Near his body is a cipher with the digits of the Fibonacci sequence and amalgams referring to Leonardo da Vinci and his Mona Lisa.

Better be forty-four and yourself, than a cipher belonging to some body else.

But what of all those people watching at home, waiting for Ann to explain the cipher that is Mittens?

No message in cipher, nor any that is at all questionable, must be sent or delivered.

The Scientists profusely apologized when I left the table at which they had their cipher.

He had received an elementary education; could read, write, and cipher.

I told you the truth when I said that the cipher letter was an enigma to me.

But Allen Barra says he remains a cipher for his actions off the field.

He had been succeeded by MacMahon, a good, brave man, but a cipher.