cipher
n. 密码；阿拉伯数字；零；暗号
v. 计算；做算术；将 ... 写成密码
过去式：ciphered 过去分词：ciphered 现在分词：ciphering 第三人称单数：ciphers
近义词：nobody，nothing，code，cryptograph，zero，nonentity，cryptogram，encryption，secretmessage，shorthand，cypher，figure，compute，workout，nix，gooseegg，encipher，aught，nought，naught，secretcode，encrypt，inscribe，Nada，Zippo，nil，null，calculate，zip，reckon，zilch，encode，
英英释义
Noun
- a message written in a secret code
- a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
- 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"
- a person of no influence
- a secret method of writing
Verb
- convert ordinary language into code;
"We should encode the message for security reasons"
- make a mathematical calculation or computation
例句
用作名词(n.)
- The army uses a special cipher so that military messages are kept secret.军队使用一种特殊密码,军事电讯因此得以保密。
- The cipher took me three weeks before I hit it.我费了3个多星期才把这密码解释出来。
- Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.年龄只是个阿拉伯数字。一个人不能让他的经验退休。他必须用它。依靠经验，可以用较少的精力和时间获得更多。
用作动词(v.)
- I couldn't cipher out why she was there.我搞不清她为什么会在那儿。
- He went to school at the age of forty, and learned to read, to write, to cipher.他四十岁进学校，学习了读，写，算。