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cipher
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n 1: a message written in a secret code [syn: cipher,
cypher]
2: a mathematical element that when added to another number
yields the same number [syn: zero, 0, nought, cipher,
cypher]
3: 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" [syn: nothing, nil, nix,
nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg,
naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo]
4: a person of no influence [syn: cipher, cypher, nobody,
nonentity]
5: a secret method of writing [syn: cipher, cypher,
cryptograph, secret code]
v 1: convert ordinary language into code; "We should encode the
message for security reasons" [syn: code, encipher,
cipher, cypher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code]
2: make a mathematical calculation or computation [syn:
calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out,
reckon, figure]
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decipher
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v 1: convert code into ordinary language [syn: decode,
decrypt, decipher] [ant: encode]
2: read with difficulty; "Can you decipher this letter?"; "The
archeologist traced the hieroglyphs" [syn: decipher,
trace]
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encipher
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v 1: convert ordinary language into code; "We should encode the
message for security reasons" [syn: code, encipher,
cipher, cypher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code]
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heifer
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n 1: young cow
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lifer
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n 1: a prisoner serving a term of life imprisonment
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cypher
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n 1: a mathematical element that when added to another number
yields the same number [syn: zero, 0, nought,
cipher, cypher]
2: 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" [syn: nothing, nil, nix,
nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg,
naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo]
3: a person of no influence [syn: cipher, cypher, nobody,
nonentity]
4: a secret method of writing [syn: cipher, cypher,
cryptograph, secret code]
5: a message written in a secret code [syn: cipher, cypher]
v 1: convert ordinary language into code; "We should encode the
message for security reasons" [syn: code, encipher,
cipher, cypher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code]
2: make a mathematical calculation or computation [syn:
calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out,
reckon, figure]
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hypha
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n 1: any of the threadlike filaments forming the mycelium of a
fungus
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knifer
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schleifer
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fifer
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kifer
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leifer
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peifer
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peiffer
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pfeifer
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pfeiffer
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pifer
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seifer
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slifer
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