英语释义
1. zero sense 1a
2. one that has no weight, worth, or influence nonentity
It was an odd fact that the financier, a cipher in his own home, could impress all sorts of people at the office.
— P. G. Wodehouse Why did the family, I wondered, act as if Rita hardly existed? Was she that much of a cipher?
— Andrew M. Greeley
3. a method of transforming a text in order to conceal its meaning
secret communications written in cipher — compare code sense 3b
4. a message in code
The cipher cannot be decoded without the key.
5. arabic numeral
6. a combination of symbolic letters especially the interwoven initials of a name
coins that bore the cipher of the sultan
7. to use figures in a mathematical process
all children should learn to read, write, and cipher
— M. Pattison
8. encipher
ciphered the letters that passed between the two heads of state
9. to compute arithmetically
ciphered out the sum in his head
10. a way of changing a message to keep it secret
11. a person who has no power or is not important
12. zero sense 1
13. a method of secret writing or the alphabet or letters and symbols used in such writing
14. a message in code
15. to use figures in doing a problem in arithmetic calculate