Associations to the word «Cypher»

Wiktionary

CYPHER, noun. Alternative spelling of cipher
CYPHER, verb. Alternative spelling of cipher

Dictionary definition

CYPHER, noun. A mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number.
CYPHER, noun. A quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it".
CYPHER, noun. A person of no influence.
CYPHER, noun. A secret method of writing.
CYPHER, noun. A message written in a secret code.
CYPHER, verb. Convert ordinary language into code; "We should encode the message for security reasons".
CYPHER, verb. Make a mathematical calculation or computation.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats