Crossword-Solution: CIPHER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cipher | n. | A character [0] which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold. |
| Cipher | n. | One who, or that which, has no weight or influence. |
| Cipher | n. | A character in general, as a figure or letter. |
| Cipher | n. | A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name; a device; a monogram; as, a painter's cipher, an engraver's cipher, etc. The cut represents the initials N. W. |
| Cipher | n. | A private alphabet, system of characters, or other mode of writing, contrived for the safe transmission of secrets; also, a writing in such characters. |
| Cipher | a. | Of the nature of a cipher; of no weight or influence. |
| Cipher | v. i. | To use figures in a mathematical process; to do sums in arithmetic. |
| Cipher | v. t. | To write in occult characters. |
| Cipher | v. t. | To get by ciphering; as, to cipher out the answer. |
| Cipher | v. t. | To decipher. |
| Cipher | v. t. | To designate by characters. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CIPHER | anagram | CERIPH |
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with CIPHER (5)
Adj.; mere joke, mere nothing; hardly anything; scarcely anything; nonentity, small beer, cipher; no great shakes, peu de chose[Fr]; child's play, kinderspiel.
Wait half an hour, then open the cell, introduce a Shakespearite and a Baconian, and let them cipher and assume.
The Romans used a simple substitution cipher where one letter in the alphabet is used in place of another.
And it is this letter—this letter which may well mean the expenditure of a thousand millions and the lives of a hundred thousand men—which has become lost in this unaccountable fashion.” “Have you informed the sender?” “Yes, sir, a cipher telegram has been despatched.” “Perhaps he desires the publication of the letter.” “No, sir, we have strong reason to believe that he already understands that he has acted in an indiscreet and hot-headed manner.
Dey wuz a free nigger boy in de settlement w'at wuz monst'us smart, en could write en cipher, en wuz alluz readin' books er papers.
Quotes with CIPHER (3)
So they trust in the deity of the Old Testament, an incontinent dotard who soiled Himself and the universe with his corruption, a low-budget divinity passing itself off as the genuine article. (Ask the Gnostics.) They trust in Jesus Christ, a historical cipher stitched together like Frankenstein's monster out of parts robbed from the graves of messiahs dead and buried - a savior on a stick. They trust in the virgin-pimping Allah and his Drum Major Mohammed, a prophet-come-lat…
Many journalists now are no more than channelers and echoers of what George Orwell called the 'official truth'. They simply cipher and transmit lies. It really grieves me that so many of my fellow journalists can be so manipulated that they become really what the French describe as 'functionaires', functionaries, not journalists. Many journalists become very defensive when you suggest to them that they are anything but impartial and objective. The problem with those words 'im…
Today at school I will learn to read at once; then tomorrow I will begin to write, and the day after tomorrow to cipher. Then with my acquirements I will earn a great deal of money, and with the first money I have in my pocket I will immediately buy for my papa a beautiful new cloth coat. But what am I saying? Cloth, indeed! It shall be all made of gold and silver, and it shall have diamond buttons. That poor man really deserves it; for to buy me books and to have me taught h…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 28 times in crossword archives (1953–2025).