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cipher .
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cipher .
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- noun Alternative spelling of
cipher . - verb Alternative spelling of
cipher .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a message written in a secret code
- noun a secret method of writing
- verb make a mathematical calculation or computation
- noun a person of no influence
- verb convert ordinary language into code
- noun a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
- noun a quantity of no importance
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Examples
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My conclusion - apart from my long held one that this Brownose cypher is about the most overpromted politician in British history I can think of (still astonishingly Labour's UK General election coordinator and Minister for Overseas Development) - he (they) would do it all again, - the exact same were they ever given another chance.
Archive 2009-03-01 Alan Smart 2009
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My conclusion - apart from my long held one that this Brownose cypher is about the most overpromted politician in British history I can think of (still astonishingly Labour's UK General election coordinator and Minister for Overseas Development) - he (they) would do it all again, - the exact same were they ever given another chance.
Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word Alan Smart 2009
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The human cypher is trying to work in "Rubberstamp Reichert" into her campaign sound bites.
Sound Politics: Because that's where her supporters live 2006
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At that time, of course, we could not employ American radio operators as many of the messages had to be transmitted in cypher which only British personnel were allowed to handle since the Americans belonged to a neutral country.
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Page 52 from Richmond to Canada, midnight interviews lurking spies, correspondence in cypher; a conspiracy against his life has long been maturing, in minds capable of such things, and finally the day is named, the place is appointed, and the parts of the bloody drama all distributed.
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On examination of the evidence offered to the grand jury, the celebrated letter of Burr to Wilkinson, in cypher, which is herewith given, was laid before them by the General, who attended before them as a witness.
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She had put these seeds into a little purse, the tissue of which was exceedingly simple; but which appeared above all price to Paul, when he saw on it a P and a V entwined together, and knew that the beautiful hair which formed the cypher was the hair of Virginia.
Paul et Virginie. English Bernardin de Saint-Pierre 1775
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William, 26, choose a red cypher, which is the same color used by his father and grandmother.
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William, 26, choose a red cypher, which is the same color used by his father and grandmother.
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William, 26, choose a red cypher, which is the same color used by his father and grandmother.
TankHughes commented on the word cypher
We need the hip-hop definition of cypher here. I don't know it properly yet. http://www.bet.com/video/hiphopawards/2015/cyphers/hamilton-cypher-explicit.html
December 10, 2015