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ciphers | cophers |

As a verb ciphers

is third-person singular of cipher.

As a noun cophers is

plural of copher.

ciphers

English

Verb

(head)
  • (cipher)

    • Anagrams

    *

    cipher

    English

    Alternative forms

    * cypher, less common than cipher but still in use in English. see The Ultra Secret by 's series of Cyphers (Nr 1, Nr 2, Nr 3, ...) before and into WWII.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A numeric character.
  • Any text character.
  • * Sir Walter Raleigh
    • This wisdom began to be written in ciphers and characters and letters bearing the forms of creatures.
  • A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name; a device; a monogram.
    • a painter's cipher''', an engraver's '''cipher , etc.
  • A method of transforming a text in order to conceal its meaning.
    • The message was written in a simple cipher . Anyone could figure it out.
  • * Bishop Burnet
    • His father engaged him when he was very young to write all his letters to England in cipher .
  • (cryptography) A cryptographic system using an algorithm that converts letters]] or sequences of [[bit, bits into ciphertext.
  • Ciphertext; a message concealed via a cipher .
    • The message is clearly a cipher , but I can't figure it out.
  • A grouping of three digits in a number, especially when delimited by commas or periods:
    • The probability is 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000 — a number having five ciphers of zeros.
  • A design of interlacing initials: a decorative design consisting of a set of interlaced initials.
  • (music) A fault in an organ valve which causes a pipe to sound continuously without the key having been pressed.
  • A hip-hop jam session [http://www.rapdict.org/Cipher]
  • The path (usually circular) shared cannabis takes through a group, an occasion of cannabis smoking.
  • Someone or something of no importance.
  • * Washington Irving
    • Here he was a mere cipher .
  • (obsolete) Zero.

    • Synonyms

    * (numeric character) number, numeral * (method for concealing the meaning of text) code * (cryptographic system using an algorithm) * (ciphertext) * * (design of interlacing initials) monogram * (fault in an organ valve causing a pipe to sound continuously) * (hip-hop jam session) * (path that shared cannabis takes through a group) * (someone or something of no importance) (person): nobody, nonentity; (thing) nonentity, nothing, nullity * naught/nought, nothing, oh, zero

    Derived terms

    * ciphertext * cypherpunk * cypherparty * decipher * encipher

    Related terms

    * zero

    Citations

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (regional, dated) To calculate.
    • I never learned much more than how to read and cipher .
  • * 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 2, ch. IX, ''Abbot Samson
    • For the mischief that one blockhead, that every blockhead does, in a world so feracious, teeming with endless results as ours, no ciphering will sum up.

    cophers

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • * 1618 , Nicholas Breton in Inedited Tracts , Burt Franklin; page #183:
    • Againe we haue hay in the barne, hor?es in the ?table, oxen in the ?tall, ?heepe in the pen, hogges in the ?tie, come in the garner, chee?e in the loft, milke in the dairy, creame in the pot, butter in the dim, ale in the tub, and Aqua vitæ in the bottle, beefe in the brine, brawne in the ?owce, and bacon in the roofe, hearbs in the garden, and water at our doores, whole cloths to our backes, and ?ome money in our cophers , and hauing all this, if we ?erue God withall, what in Gods name can we de?ire to haue more??