Dictionary Entry
cipher
cipher is a 6-letter English word with 18 senses as noun, adjective, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A character [0] which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 14 · 18 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A character [0] which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold.
- 2noun
One who, or that which, has no weight or influence.
- 3noun
A character in general, as a figure or letter.
- 4noun
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.
- 5noun
A private alphabet, system of characters, or other mode of writing, contrived for the safe transmission of secrets; also, a writing in such characters.
- 6adjective
Of the nature of a cipher; of no weight or influence.
- 7intransitive verb
To use figures in a mathematical process; to do sums in arithmetic.
- 8transitive verb
To write in occult characters.
- 9transitive verb
To get by ciphering; as, to cipher out the answer.
- 10transitive verb
To decipher.
- 11transitive verb
To designate by characters.
- 12noun
a message written in a secret code
Synonyms
- 13noun
a secret method of writing
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- 14noun
a person of no influence
- 15noun
a quantity of no importance
"it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"
"reduced to nil all the work we had done"
- 16noun
a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
- 17verb
make a mathematical calculation or computation
- 18verb
convert ordinary language into code
"We should encode the message for security reasons"
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