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noun ˈsʌɪfəˈsaɪfər 1A secret or disguised way of writing; a code. 密码 he wrote cryptic notes in a cipher 他用密码书写秘密笔记。 mass noun the information may be given in cipher 信息可能是以密码给出的。 Example sentencesExamples - As radio was developed, the ability of the enemy to eavesdrop on radio messages brought about the development of codes and ciphers.
- A cipher is a sort of cryptographic coding system used to disguise information.
- The second cipher, which used several different symbols for each English letter in the text, was much more difficult.
- I have studied the equation-solving technique for the cryptanalysis of secret-key ciphers.
- Wilkins worked on codes and ciphers, publishing his work in 1641.
- Indeed, communication security today, a collective term for all types of codes and ciphers, is probably more important than it has ever been in our history.
- Encryption, codes and ciphers were once associated only with spies, espionage and illicit letters between lovers.
- He was also an inventor of puzzles, games, ciphers, and mnemonics, and an amateur pioneer in photography.
- Other people taught us how to use secret inks, how to use cyphers of course, how to use radio transmitters, and how to use explosives.
- The enciphering and deciphering of messages in secret code or cipher is called cryptology.
- Julius Caesar used a substitution cipher, now known as the Caesar Shift Cipher, where messages were encoded by replacing each letter in the alphabet with the letter three places along.
- A team of researchers in Sweden has cracked the final cipher and claimed the £10,000 prize.
- Thus unbreakable ciphers do exist, and are not merely a figment of abstract imagination.
- It's a computer program that's used to break ciphers, trying to crack the code of the math code.
- These cribs were essential for breaking the ciphers.
- British agents broke into the Spanish Embassy in Washington and stole the keys to their ciphers, enabling Bletchley Park to crack the Spanish codes.
- One of his most damning accusations is that the agency failed to do what it was mainly designed to do: break high-level ciphers.
- The first cipher broken was Serpent: the cipher universally considered to be the safest, most conservative choice.
- The problem with mono-alphabetic ciphers like the Caesar Cipher is that they're relatively easy to crack.
- She was transferred to work on coding and cyphers supervised by Bletchley Park.
- 1.1 Something written in a code.
以密码书写的东西 he came across ciphers written on parchment and concealed in a hollow altar pillar Example sentencesExamples - He printed ciphers on silk squares so agents could carry the information more easily across borders.
- An equivalent way of writing the same cipher is shown in the diagram.
- In the first century AD, miracles were seen as a secret code - a set of signs and ciphers known only to the Jews.
- The English language uses letters with varying frequencies, allowing code-breakers to calculate which ciphers represent which letters.
- Loved ones turn into cyphers, impossible to decode.
- Jim is an expert at classical cryptography and has written a program that is quite good at cracking Enigma cipher.
- And why are they targeting me with their runes, signs and ciphers?
- Japanese culture is a culture in which even written language has evolved from drawings rather than alphabetical ciphers.
- 1.2 A key to a code.
解码 Example sentencesExamples - He was forced to reveal his cipher and to contact headquarters with messages written by his captors.
- A Second World War code cipher book won't help!
- During this process the cipher secret key is never transmitted on the network.
2dated A zero; a figure 0. 〈旧〉零；数字0 Example sentencesExamples - From nine years observations, at Cincinnati, it appears that the thermometer falls below cypher twice every winter.
Synonyms zero, nought, nil, 0 archaic naught - 2.1 A person of no importance, especially one who does the bidding of others and seems to have no will of their own.
〈喻〉无足轻重的人（尤指听命于人而无主见的人）；不重要的东西 journalists are not mere interchangeable ciphers in the propaganda battle Example sentencesExamples - She challenges the assumption that actors are mere ciphers channeling the influence of directors and writers.
- Pablo is not a mere cipher, but a true collaborator.
- I'm less sympathetic toward Hollywood stars, mostly blank-eyed cyphers with nothing to say and an artless way of expressing it.
- There is a longstanding principle of English parliaments that members are not party ciphers.
- Fforde's two previous books contain greater emotional depth, and it's disappointing to see his leading lady dwindling into a cypher.
- He would not have got as far as he has if he were the mere unintelligent cipher that he is portrayed as being.
- Vassily Gerello, on the other hand, was a total cipher in the title role, and the rest of the cast seemed equally vague.
- He can act as a cypher, a mouthpiece for other's voices.
- Jim should be the compassionate heart of the film and instead all he is is a cypher, pushed into clichéd situations.
- At times, they resemble mere ciphers who are there to move the story on and no more.
- The women seem thinly written, ciphers rather than people, making it difficult for any compelling drama to be sustained.
- Governors have become mere cyphers for the decision-makers - often people with little or no practical experience of the problems faced by prison administrations.
- The characters are not mere ciphers, drawn along by the plot.
- Astrid throughout remains a mere cipher, a beautiful woman with a crooked smile whom the narrator met while he was a student.
- And we finally get sufficient insight into Connot MacLeod to render him a character rather than a cipher.
- Let us treat our pupils as real people rather than ciphers, and let us encourage their minds to range as far and wide as their talents will allow them.
- Most of the characters rarely develop into something more than ciphers; most remain pawns in the chess game the film is playing with itself.
- This sequel presents us with an almost identical plot and mere ciphers for characters.
- He will never shed his image as a mere cypher of his father's wealthy friends and the interests of big business.
- The behaviour of the contestants has reduced them to little more than cyphers, their actions unsympathetic.
Synonyms nobody, nonentity, nothing, non-person, unimportant person, person of no account
3A monogram. 交织字母，花押字 a pair of rock crystal goblets engraved with the cipher of Peter the Great Example sentencesExamples - Her Majesty's wishes were that it should be replaced with a Colour bearing the cypher of the Sovereign of the day.
- Of his many personal ciphers and mottoes one appears more frequently on his personal possessions than any other.
- The badge of the Wiltshire's was a combination of the Maltese Cross and the Duke of Edinburgh's coronet and cipher.
- Among the drawings are masterpieces by Rex Whistler, whom the Queen Mother also commissioned to design a new royal cipher.
Synonyms numeral, number, integer, figure, digit character, symbol, sign
verb ˈsʌɪfəˈsaɪfər 1with object Put (a message) into secret writing; encode. 把（消息）写成密码 he left two, as yet uncracked, ciphered messages for posthumous decoding Example sentencesExamples - The encryption keys are sent over dedicated links, and the messages ciphered with those keys are transmitted over the Internet.
- Theirs took almost five minutes to cypher and decode, ours took one to two minutes.
- With a black calligraphy pen, each word had been carefully ciphered in a Gothic style.
- It became a vital tool for the Nazis during World War II who used it to cipher and decipher secret messages.
- An ancient diary tells them that the location of a hidden crypt that has been ciphered within the pages of the Renaissance text.
2archaic no object Do arithmetic. 〈古〉做算术 Example sentencesExamples - Many people in the community were illiterate, having little need for education beyond simple ciphering, and how to sign one's name.
OriginLate Middle English (in the senses 'symbol for zero' and 'Arabic numeral'): from Old French cifre, based on Arabic ṣifr 'zero'. Rhymesencipher, fifer, Haifa, knifer, lifer nounˈsʌɪfəˈsaɪfər A continuous sounding of an organ pipe, caused by a mechanical defect. （管风琴音管因机械故障发出的）连响
verbˈsʌɪfəˈsaɪfər [no object](of an organ pipe) sound continuously. （管风琴音管）连响
OriginLate 18th century: perhaps from cipher1. nounˈsaɪfərˈsīfər 1A secret or disguised way of writing; a code. 密码 he was writing cryptic notes in a cipher 他用密码书写秘密笔记。 the information may be given in cipher 信息可能是以密码给出的。 Example sentencesExamples - She was transferred to work on coding and cyphers supervised by Bletchley Park.
- He was also an inventor of puzzles, games, ciphers, and mnemonics, and an amateur pioneer in photography.
- A team of researchers in Sweden has cracked the final cipher and claimed the £10,000 prize.
- Other people taught us how to use secret inks, how to use cyphers of course, how to use radio transmitters, and how to use explosives.
- Julius Caesar used a substitution cipher, now known as the Caesar Shift Cipher, where messages were encoded by replacing each letter in the alphabet with the letter three places along.
- It's a computer program that's used to break ciphers, trying to crack the code of the math code.
- The enciphering and deciphering of messages in secret code or cipher is called cryptology.
- One of his most damning accusations is that the agency failed to do what it was mainly designed to do: break high-level ciphers.
- As radio was developed, the ability of the enemy to eavesdrop on radio messages brought about the development of codes and ciphers.
- A cipher is a sort of cryptographic coding system used to disguise information.
- The first cipher broken was Serpent: the cipher universally considered to be the safest, most conservative choice.
- Wilkins worked on codes and ciphers, publishing his work in 1641.
- I have studied the equation-solving technique for the cryptanalysis of secret-key ciphers.
- The problem with mono-alphabetic ciphers like the Caesar Cipher is that they're relatively easy to crack.
- Encryption, codes and ciphers were once associated only with spies, espionage and illicit letters between lovers.
- These cribs were essential for breaking the ciphers.
- British agents broke into the Spanish Embassy in Washington and stole the keys to their ciphers, enabling Bletchley Park to crack the Spanish codes.
- Thus unbreakable ciphers do exist, and are not merely a figment of abstract imagination.
- Indeed, communication security today, a collective term for all types of codes and ciphers, is probably more important than it has ever been in our history.
- The second cipher, which used several different symbols for each English letter in the text, was much more difficult.
- 1.1 A thing written in a cipher.
以密码书写的东西 Example sentencesExamples - And why are they targeting me with their runes, signs and ciphers?
- In the first century AD, miracles were seen as a secret code - a set of signs and ciphers known only to the Jews.
- The English language uses letters with varying frequencies, allowing code-breakers to calculate which ciphers represent which letters.
- Loved ones turn into cyphers, impossible to decode.
- He printed ciphers on silk squares so agents could carry the information more easily across borders.
- Jim is an expert at classical cryptography and has written a program that is quite good at cracking Enigma cipher.
- Japanese culture is a culture in which even written language has evolved from drawings rather than alphabetical ciphers.
- An equivalent way of writing the same cipher is shown in the diagram.
- 1.2 A key to such a cipher.
解码 Example sentencesExamples - A Second World War code cipher book won't help!
- During this process the cipher secret key is never transmitted on the network.
- He was forced to reveal his cipher and to contact headquarters with messages written by his captors.
2dated A zero; a figure 0. 〈旧〉零；数字0 Example sentencesExamples - From nine years observations, at Cincinnati, it appears that the thermometer falls below cypher twice every winter.
- 2.1 A person or thing of no importance, especially a person who does the bidding of others and seems to have no will of their own.
〈喻〉无足轻重的人（尤指听命于人而无主见的人）；不重要的东西 Example sentencesExamples - He would not have got as far as he has if he were the mere unintelligent cipher that he is portrayed as being.
- There is a longstanding principle of English parliaments that members are not party ciphers.
- She challenges the assumption that actors are mere ciphers channeling the influence of directors and writers.
- Pablo is not a mere cipher, but a true collaborator.
- At times, they resemble mere ciphers who are there to move the story on and no more.
- The characters are not mere ciphers, drawn along by the plot.
- He will never shed his image as a mere cypher of his father's wealthy friends and the interests of big business.
- This sequel presents us with an almost identical plot and mere ciphers for characters.
- Astrid throughout remains a mere cipher, a beautiful woman with a crooked smile whom the narrator met while he was a student.
- And we finally get sufficient insight into Connot MacLeod to render him a character rather than a cipher.
- He can act as a cypher, a mouthpiece for other's voices.
- The behaviour of the contestants has reduced them to little more than cyphers, their actions unsympathetic.
- Fforde's two previous books contain greater emotional depth, and it's disappointing to see his leading lady dwindling into a cypher.
- Vassily Gerello, on the other hand, was a total cipher in the title role, and the rest of the cast seemed equally vague.
- The women seem thinly written, ciphers rather than people, making it difficult for any compelling drama to be sustained.
- I'm less sympathetic toward Hollywood stars, mostly blank-eyed cyphers with nothing to say and an artless way of expressing it.
- Jim should be the compassionate heart of the film and instead all he is is a cypher, pushed into clichéd situations.
- Governors have become mere cyphers for the decision-makers - often people with little or no practical experience of the problems faced by prison administrations.
- Most of the characters rarely develop into something more than ciphers; most remain pawns in the chess game the film is playing with itself.
- Let us treat our pupils as real people rather than ciphers, and let us encourage their minds to range as far and wide as their talents will allow them.
Synonyms nobody, nonentity, nothing, non-person, unimportant person, person of no account
3A monogram. 交织字母，花押字 Example sentencesExamples - Her Majesty's wishes were that it should be replaced with a Colour bearing the cypher of the Sovereign of the day.
- The badge of the Wiltshire's was a combination of the Maltese Cross and the Duke of Edinburgh's coronet and cipher.
- Of his many personal ciphers and mottoes one appears more frequently on his personal possessions than any other.
- Among the drawings are masterpieces by Rex Whistler, whom the Queen Mother also commissioned to design a new royal cipher.
Synonyms numeral, number, integer, figure, digit
verbˈsaɪfərˈsīfər 1with object Put (a message) into secret writing; encode. 把（消息）写成密码 Example sentencesExamples - With a black calligraphy pen, each word had been carefully ciphered in a Gothic style.
- The encryption keys are sent over dedicated links, and the messages ciphered with those keys are transmitted over the Internet.
- An ancient diary tells them that the location of a hidden crypt that has been ciphered within the pages of the Renaissance text.
- It became a vital tool for the Nazis during World War II who used it to cipher and decipher secret messages.
- Theirs took almost five minutes to cypher and decode, ours took one to two minutes.
2archaic no object Do arithmetic. 〈古〉做算术 Example sentencesExamples - Many people in the community were illiterate, having little need for education beyond simple ciphering, and how to sign one's name.
OriginLate Middle English (in the senses ‘symbol for zero’ and ‘Arabic numeral’): from Old French cifre, based on Arabic ṣifr ‘zero’. nounˈsaɪfərˈsīfər A continuous sounding of an organ pipe, caused by a mechanical defect. （管风琴音管因机械故障发出的）连响
verbˈsaɪfərˈsīfər [no object](of an organ pipe) sound continuously. （管风琴音管）连响
OriginLate 18th century: perhaps from cipher. |