Cipher
['saɪfə] or ['saɪfɚ]
解释:
(noun.) a message written in a secret code.
(noun.) a secret method of writing.
(noun.) a person of no influence.
整理:默尔--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A character [0] which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold.
(n.) One who, or that which, has no weight or influence.
(n.) A character in general, as a figure or letter.
(n.) A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name; a device; a monogram; as, a painter's cipher, an engraver's cipher, etc. The cut represents the initials N. W.
(n.) A private alphabet, system of characters, or other mode of writing, contrived for the safe transmission of secrets; also, a writing in such characters.
(a.) Of the nature of a cipher; of no weight or influence.
(v. i.) To use figures in a mathematical process; to do sums in arithmetic.
(v. t.) To write in occult characters.
(v. t.) To get by ciphering; as, to cipher out the answer.
(v. t.) To decipher.
(v. t.) To designate by characters.
录入:玛莎
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Zero, naught or nought, nothing.[2]. Character, symbol, device.[3]. Secret character, private alphabet.
v. n. Practise arithmetic.
巴贝奇录入
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Nonentity, dot, nothing, trifle, button, (fig.)_straw, pin, rush, molehill
ANT:Somebody, bigwig, something, notability, celebrity, triton, colossus, star
编辑:珀西
解释:
n. (arith.) the character 0: any of the nine figures: anything of little value whether persons or things: a nonentity: an interweaving of the initials of a name: a secret kind of writing.—v.i. to work at arithmetic: to write in cipher: of an organ-pipe to sound independent of the organ: (Shak.) to decipher.—ns. Cī′phering; Cī′pher-key a key to a cipher or piece of secret writing.
鲍里斯校对
娱乐性解释：
To dream of reading cipher, indicates that you are interested in literary researches, and by constant study you will become well acquainted with the habits and lives of the ancients.
编辑:梅根
例句:
- I could not get Louisville, and the cipher message began to come. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- A third typical story of this period deals with a cipher message for Thomas. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Lady Bertram seems more of a cipher now than when he is at home; and nobody else can keep Mrs. Norris in order. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- Afterwards he had, to fulfill the prearranged cipher, to fill in any two words in each space. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- I had to cipher a comprehension of it. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- I told him the circumstances, and suggested that he had better cipher such communications, or put on a secret sounder. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Yes, sir, a cipher telegram has been despatched. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- But three of the number can read: none write or cipher. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- But, at last I began, in a purblind groping way, to read, write, and cipher, on the very smallest scale. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- No one would deny the right of forming a provisional assumption to the intelligence officer interpreting a cipher, or to the detective unravelling the mystery of a crime. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- So there was splendour and wealth, but no great happiness perchance, behind the tall caned portals of Gaunt House with its smoky coronets and ciphers. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- It looks like an exaggeration or as if the typesetter had slipped in several extra ciphers by mistake, does it not? 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- From that hour Fanny and Eliza became ciphers in the sick-room. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Give me an example of your meaning, Wamba,--I know nothing of ciphers or rates of usage, answered the Knight. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- After he withdrew from school, he read, wrote, and ciphered (in the intervals of manu al work) almost incessantly. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
手打:米米