cipher
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(noun) a secret method of writing |
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Synonyms: cryptograph, cypher, secret code |
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Related Words: code |
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(noun) a message written in a secret code |
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Synonyms: cypher |
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Related Words: message |
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(noun) a person of no influence |
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Synonyms: cypher, nobody, nonentity |
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Related Words: common man, common person, commoner, jackanapes, lightweight, pip-squeak, small fry, squirt, whippersnapper |
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(verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation |
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Synonyms: calculate, compute, cypher, figure, reckon |
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Related Words: add, add together, approximate, average, average out, budget, capitalize, deduct, differentiate, divide, estimate, extract, extrapolate, factor, factor in, factor out, fraction, gauge, guess, integrate, interpolate, judge, miscalculate, multiply, process, prorate, reason, recalculate, resolve, solve, subtract, survey, take off |
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(verb) convert ordinary language into code; "We should encode the message for security reasons" |
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Synonyms: code, cypher, encipher, encode, encrypt, inscribe, write in code |
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Related Words: write |
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(noun) a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number |
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Synonyms: 0, cypher, nought, zero |
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Related Words: digit |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: aught, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, zero, zilch, zip |
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Related Words: bugger all, fuck all, nihil, nil, relative quantity |
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