(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) The mother in Arthur Ransome's children's classic, Swallows and Amazons, is something of a cipher, but her inability to make basic decisions does mean she receives one of the finest telegrams in all literature.
(2) Ciphered informations of barcode-labels allow the automatic and nevertheless selective pipetting of samples by pipetting-robots.
(3) There's Diane, the co-founding partner at Alicia's law firm, who is neither bitch nor secretly unfulfilled nor shrew; Alicia herself, an almost uniquely stoic female character; Kalinda, who – well, she just kicks ass in every way, don't get me started; Peter's mother, who sits like a sweetly smiling spider in the middle of the domestic web; and even the Florricks' 14-year-old daughter is not a screaming teenage cipher but a thoughtful and considered player in this increasingly brilliant ensemble piece.
(4) When the lieutenant commander who first commanded the JFIT gave evidence to the Mousa inquiry – identified only by the cipher SO40 – he described an operation in which prisoners were handled in a clinical but basically humane fashion.
(5) Neuropharmacological studies with the compound 2-methyl, 3-phenyl, 3-methyltransxydroxasino-propiophenon hydrochloride with cipher PS1, were carried out on rats as well as follow-up of development of drug dependence after continuous usage of the substance.
(6) "Barristers have to ask themselves the question: are they merely the conduit, are they merely a paid cipher whose job is to do whatever hatchet job they can?"
(7) Such process of "archaeology" seems to be the only suitable to supply us the cipher-key of the ambiguous, shifty character of oxygen, and entrust us with a cultural patrimony being unique as it is spendable in an immediate clinical future.
(8) But naturally, she thinks it’s wrong to suggest, as Sturgeon appeared to, that one referendum was just what she calls a “cipher” for the other, not least because – to take just one example – some 400,000 SNP supporters voted for Brexit.
(9) Moreover, vaccination is practically innocuous and prevaccination screening tests are only profitable with prevalences os seropositivity higher than 28% in the case of MIR-R1 and 29.55% in the case of staff doctors which are ciphers much higher than those of the prevalence of seropositivity normally found among Spanish hospital personnel.
(10) He is really a cipher in all this, a token representative,” said Philip Bowring, a Hong Kong-based commentator and former editor of the Far East Economic Review.
(11) For he is simply a cipher, too often a regurgitator of policy-lite platitudes.
(12) The spread in government bond yields between Italy and Germany, which seems to have become the sole cipher of our political future, appears already to be decreasing, though, so all must be well.
(13) When we can see the horrors ourselves, we don't need a cipher.
(14) Uniqueness of restoration of the monomers sequence of the ciphering based upon known set [Sj(m)] is proved.
(15) Detained by immigration officials and facing deportation to Vietnam, he appealed to SIAC, where he was given the cipher B2.
(16) The interior ministry's special technology and communications group published a tender earlier this month on the government procurement website offering the sum for "research work, Tor cipher".
(17) Heuristic method for restoration of the monomer sequence in the ciphering based upon some characteristics of molecular weight distributions (such as Sj(m)-number of the fragments with the weight m containing j unbroken bonds) is considered.
(18) The details of the case are reduced to a legal algebra, where we are only allowed to refer to a Mr Z, and Mr Justice Tugendhat's ruling was published in an impenetrable cipher – ZAM v CFW and TFW.
(19) Eventhough found ciphers could be considered like bordering normal values, there is a difference statistically significance in relation with the values that were found in sane subjects.
(20) Now, when she looks back at Bletchley, the Government Code and Cipher School known to the inmates as simply "the Park", it seems like a high-pressure academy, or even a university.
Decipher
Definition:
(v. t.) To translate from secret characters or ciphers into intelligible terms; as, to decipher a letter written in secret characters.
(v. t.) To find out, so as to be able to make known the meaning of; to make out or read, as words badly written or partly obliterated; to detect; to reveal; to unfold.
(v. t.) To stamp; to detect; to discover.
Example Sentences:
(1) Outside of human resources matters, they cover changes to services; reconfiguration of services; deciphering all the rules and regulations so that people can do their jobs; interpreting the complicated rules around commissioning care; commercial deals; inquests and dealing with families; and supporting clinical staff in making the right decision in the best interest of the patient.
(2) To date, a disproportionate amount of effort may have been spent on deciphering putative intracellular regulatory mechanisms, without knowing some essential fundamental properties of the Na+-Pi-COT.
(3) Furthermore, the abundance of synaptic proteins makes the electrocyte a unique model with which to decipher the mechanisms involved in the sorting and targeting of these glycoproteins.
(4) The results of this study show that APB can be a powerful tool for pharmacologically deciphering the functional connections that exist between outer and inner retinal neurons.
(5) But one of the giants of DNA, James Watson, who won the Nobel prize for deciphering the structure of DNA in 1953, writes in the Guardian today: "To our vast relief, the publicly supported effort received not less but more money.
(6) Several features demonstrate that a unique class of ribosomes exists in this organism, and a study of these ribosomes will be important to decipher special features of translational regulation, and evolution of the organelle in the eukaryotic kingdom.
(7) Some previously unknown types of structural disorders in DNA molecule have been discovered, some repair genes isolated and their primary structure established, some aspects of radiation mutagenesis elucidated, and research into deciphering the molecular bases of neoplastic transformations of exposed cells are being successfully investigated.
(8) Reading through interpretation entails deciphering the text according to certain definite rules.
(9) To decipher the early events preceding the re-entry of somatic cells into the cell cycle, we constructed a cDNA library from 6-h-old protoplasts of Nicotiana sylvestris.
(10) By analyzing the synaptic relationships of such "darkened" dendrites, connections in the upper dorsal horn can be deciphered.
(11) Yet the headline piece of provocation was threaded in the visitors’ colours, and foreign media were quickly scrambling for the history books – and the dictionary – upon deciphering the word printed at the bottom of it.
(12) Another task was to decipher a number of metabolic signs of the phenomenon of CHD "exacerbation" in laser therapy (during 4-6 sessions).
(13) If you are not capable of being able to decipher between lobbying and fact, and if we are incapable of politicians to see both sides of the argument, then that's a fault that we have."
(14) 50% were unable to accurately explain to what the initials AIDS refer, and only 2 could decipher HIV+.
(15) PUT THAT IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT "A few years back you helped me decipher the logo of Paris Saint-Germain," writes Tom Haslam.
(16) The Na+, K+-ATPase isolation as a "functionally intact unit" would probably make an essential contribution to deciphering the molecular mechanism of the Na+ and K+ transport through biomembranes.
(17) Chicken prolactin receptor (cPRLR) deciphered from the cDNA sequence showed a unique double antenna structure in its extracellular domain.
(18) Many DNA sequences have been studied by X-ray crystallography with the goal of deciphering a sequence-structure code.
(19) (It's quite easy to decipher: Romanian looks like Esperanto.)
(20) Examination of the proteolytic processing and compartmentalization of the primary translation products of apolipoprotein mRNAs represents one approach to deciphering the molecular details of lipoprotein assembly.