Crossword clues for cypher
cypher
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cypher \Cy"pher\ (s?"f?r), n. & v. See Cipher. [1913 Webster] ||
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of cipher English) vb. (alternative spelling of cipher English)
WordNet
n. a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number [syn: zero, 0, nought, cipher]
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, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip]
a secret method of writing [syn: cipher, cryptograph, secret code]
a message written in a secret code [syn: cipher]
v. convert ordinary language into code; "We should encode the message for security reasons" [syn: encode, code, encipher, cipher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code] [ant: decode]
make a mathematical calculation or computation [syn: calculate, cipher, compute, work out, reckon, figure]
Wikipedia
Cypher is an alternative spelling for cipher.
Cypher may also refer to:
Cypher (Douglas "Doug" Ramsey) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character appears usually in the X-Men family of books, in particular those featuring The New Mutants, of which Cypher has been a member. He is a mutant with the ability to easily understand any language, whether verbal or written.
The character is not related to the female cyborg of the same name who first appeared in Sabretooth and Mystique #1 and is a member of A.I.M.
Cypher (also known as Brainstorm), is a 2002 science fiction thriller film starring Jeremy Northam and Lucy Liu. It was written by Brian King and directed by Vincenzo Natali. Jeremy Northam plays an accountant whose hope for a career in corporate espionage takes an unexpected turn. The film was shown in limited release in theaters in the US and Australia, and released on DVD on August 2, 2005. The film received mixed reviews, and Northam received the Best Actor award at the Sitges Film Festival.
Cypher is a three piece instrumental band from Perth, Australia.
Cypher is the fourth album by industrial black metal band ...And Oceans. The original name of the album was set to be Insect Angels and Devil Worms, but was changed.
Cypher: Cyberpunk Text Adventure is a cyberpunk interactive fiction video game written by the Cabrera Brothers and released on August 31, 2012. It updates the traditional text adventure format by including music, sound effects and limited graphical elements to the game. The game is available as a download for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh OS X, purchasable directly from the creators' website.
Cypher is a supervillain created by Chuck Dixon and Michael Netzer, who appears in comic books published by DC Comics. Cypher is primarily an adversary of Batman and Tim Drake.
Cypher is the third album by the experimental black metal band Spektr.
Alexey Yanushevsky (born May 17, 1990), who also goes by the pseudonym "Cypher", is a Belarusian professional player of the first person shooter series Quake. He is of Belarusian nationality, resides in Minsk and is signed to Dutch esports team Serious Gaming. He has been actively competing in international Quake competitions since February 24, 2006. Cypher was most notably the first one to win the QuakeCon 1v1 tournament 4 times (2008, 2010, 2012, and 2014). Yanushevksy has been a champion of many other tournaments, including Electronic Sports World Cup, Intel Extreme Masters, Dreamhack or Asus Cups.
Usage examples of "cypher".
Raven Cypher to conjure up a shadow-demon who can split rock and make the earth breathe fire.
He had already decided that he could not afford to linger in the city - no matter how important the Raven Cypher might be - and that he would start to look for a passage on one of the river boats immediately.
It took only a brief examination to confirm that she was indeed a sleeper, and Terrel reflected grimly that the Raven Cypher had been right after all.
We know nothing of this Raven Cypher, and it seems to contradict the Code.
Roskin and I came across part of the cypher that had never made sense before, she told him.
Making a curt excuse, she took her leave, and within the hour she was on her way back to London, with a clue to the cypher in her brain.
Merrick exposed an opposition agent actually installed in the cypher room of the British Embassy it was going to make a nasty bang at a time when the East-West delegates were sending each other roses.
Here at last was news from Badminton and from Monmouth and Hereford: and at the foot, in the cypher which was that most commonly used among the Jacobites, was a further note dealing with Sir Watkin Wynn.
I remember how one used to be told that no code or cypher which was practically useful was really undiscoverable, and in a sense that is true, especially of codes.
The more valuable stuff was in cypher, and that was another pair of shoes.
There is nothing to prevent a cypher having a double meaning, produced by two different methods, and, as a practical question, you have to decide which meaning is intended.
There was one cypher which always defeated us, a cypher used between the German General Staff and their forces in the East.
It was a locked cypher, and Channell had given more time to it than to any dozen of the others, for it put him on his mettle.
She told me that she did not keep it under lock and key, because it was written in a cypher, the secret of which was known only to herself.
The letter containing this vast secret was not in cypher, so I advised him to burn it after he had read it, assuring him that I possessed a copy.