cipher

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n. 零, 暗号, 密码, 无用的东西, 阿拉伯数字 v. 计算, 做算术

发音

UK /ˈsaɪfə/
其它
CA /ˈsaɪfɚ/
US /ˈsaɪfɚ/

词形变化

ciphers 复数 ciphers ciphered ciphering ciphers 三单 ciphering 现在分词 ciphered 过去式 ciphered 过去分词

别名

cypher

教材释义与例句

名词

密码；暗号；零

动词

计算；做算术；将…译成密码

动词

使用密码；计算；做算术

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A numeric character.

  2. 2.

    Any text character.

  3. 3.

    A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name.

    a painter's cipher

    an engraver's cipher

  4. 4.

    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.

  5. 5.

    A cryptographic system using an algorithm that converts letters or sequences of bits into ciphertext.

    计算机 工程 数学

    a public-key cipher

  6. 6.

    Ciphertext; a message concealed via a cipher.

    The message is clearly a cipher, but I can't figure it out.

  7. 7.

    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.

  8. 8.

    A fault in an organ valve which causes a pipe to sound continuously without the key having been pressed.

    音乐
  9. 9.

    A hip-hop jam session.

    俚语 音乐
  10. 10.

    The path (usually circular) shared cannabis takes through a group, an occasion of cannabis smoking.

    俚语
  11. 11.

    Someone or something of no importance.

  12. 12.

    Zero.

    过时
v.
  1. 1.

    To calculate.

    过时 不及物

    I never learned much more than how to read and cipher.

  2. 2.

    To write in code or cipher.

    不及物
  3. 3.

    Of an organ pipe: to sound independent of the organ.

    不及物 音乐
  4. 4.

    To decipher.

    废旧

词汇关系

名词

同义词 10

nothing nobody zero zip naught nil nix null zilch nought

上位词 5

figure message code commoner digit

下位词 10

squirt lightweight pipsqueak bugger all Fanny Adams fuck all jackanapes nihil small fry whippersnapper
动词

同义词 10

figure code reckon calculate compute cypher work out inscribe encipher encrypt

上位词 2

reason encode

下位词 10

guess judge process add solve average budget contain factor divide

近义相关 1

work out

相关短语

substitution cipher n.代用密码（或记号） Caesar cipher stream cipher Playfair cipher Vigenère cipher Feistel cipher block cipher classical cipher Julius Caesar cipher Bacon's cipher Baconian cipher Beaufort cipher bifid cipher trifid cipher pigpen cipher

词源

14th century. From Middle English cifre, from Old French cyfre, cyffre (French chiffre), ultimately from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “zero, empty”), from صَفَرَ (ṣafara, “to be empty”). Doublet of chiffre and zero. Sense 8 (a fault in an organ valve) may be a different word.

来源：wiktionary