Cipher
['saɪfə] or ['saɪfɚ]
解釋/意思:
(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
解釋/意思:
(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.
錄入:玛莎
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Zero, naught or nought, nothing.[2]. Character, symbol, device.[3]. Secret character, private alphabet.
v. n. Practise arithmetic.
巴贝奇錄入
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Nonentity, dot, nothing, trifle, button, (fig.)_straw, pin, rush, molehill
ANT:Somebody, bigwig, something, notability, celebrity, triton, colossus, star
編輯:珀西
解釋/意思:
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.
鲍里斯校對
娱乐性解釋/意思：
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.
編輯:梅根
例句/造句/用法:
- I could not get Louisville, and the cipher message began to come. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- A third typical story of this period deals with a cipher message for Thomas. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Lady Bertram seems more of a cipher now than when he is at home; and nobody else can keep Mrs. Norris in order. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Afterwards he had, to fulfill the prearranged cipher, to fill in any two words in each space. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- I had to cipher a comprehension of it. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I told him the circumstances, and suggested that he had better cipher such communications, or put on a secret sounder. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Yes, sir, a cipher telegram has been despatched. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- But three of the number can read: none write or cipher. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- But, at last I began, in a purblind groping way, to read, write, and cipher, on the very smallest scale. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- 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. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- 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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- It looks like an exaggeration or as if the typesetter had slipped in several extra ciphers by mistake, does it not? 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- From that hour Fanny and Eliza became ciphers in the sick-room. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Give me an example of your meaning, Wamba,--I know nothing of ciphers or rates of usage, answered the Knight. 沃爾特·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. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
手打:米米