What's the difference between cipher and nobody?

Cipher


Definition:

  • (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.

Nobody


Definition:

  • (n.) No person; no one; not anybody.
  • (n.) A person of no influence or importance; an insignificant or contemptible person.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As calls grew to establish why nobody stepped in to save Daniel, it was also revealed that the boy's headteacher – who saw him scavenging for scraps – has not been disciplined and has been put in charge of a bigger school.
  • (2) I knocked for quite some time but there was nobody there.” A neighbour said the family had not been home for “a while”.
  • (3) Nobody knows how often it happens but judging just from my inbox, it’s certainly not a rare occurrence and what struck me as I started to learn about the issue of health privacy is that employees are defenseless against things like this happening to them.” Fei said that she also received her fair share of emails saying: “What makes you think your baby was entitled to million dollars worth of care?
  • (4) The committee's findings include that the attacks were not extensively planned by the perpetrators; the intelligence community did a good job of warning about the risk of an attack but a bad job of summarizing the attack when it happened; the state department screwed up by not beefing up security at the mission; nobody blocked any military response; and that the Obama administration was slow to produce a paper trail but was generally not a sinister actor in the episode.
  • (5) As Aesop reminds us at the end of the fable: “Nobody believes a liar, even when he’s telling the truth.” When leaders choose only the facts that suit them, people don’t stop believing in facts – they stop believing in leaders This distrust is both mutual and longstanding, prompting two clear trends in British electoral politics.
  • (6) 8.39pm GMT 44 mins: Bunbury is sent clear on Sporting's left but nobody is up in support and he loses the ball.
  • (7) Before the AKP came to power, nobody had heard of Turkey and our politicians.
  • (8) They are learning that education isn’t stimulating and nobody is listening to their needs.
  • (9) Even if nobody switched party, the general election result would look very different to what’s predicted if millennials could be persuaded to vote at the same rate as pensioners, as polls factor in turnout differences and oversample the elderly accordingly.
  • (10) "); hopeless self-pity ("Nobody said anything to me about Billy ... all day long") and rage ("You want to put a bench in the park in Billy's name?
  • (11) Nobody was surprised when the house agreed unanimously, or at least nem con, to get the whole matter investigated by Mr Bryant's committee.
  • (12) Quantitative easing, which nobody had heard of until it started happening, entered the language.
  • (13) Nobody said anything to me.” The victory was Villa’s second over Albion in five days.
  • (14) He admitted that he had “no reason” to fire the shots that killed Steenkamp, as Nel told him: “Your version is so improbable, that nobody would ever think it’s reasonably, possibly true, it’s so impossible … Your version is a lie.” Nel said the phrase “I love you” appeared only twice in WhatsApp messages from Steenkamp and, on both occasions, they were written to her mother: “Never to you and you never to her.” Day 20: live coverage as it happened.
  • (15) For a while he stayed put, biding his time, anxious that when the move came (and nobody doubted there would be a move) it would be the right one.
  • (16) But nobody got the reference and "the next day it was literally on CNN".
  • (17) Nobody's mobile phone bill should come to £230 in one month.
  • (18) "We have rhetorical pressure, which we are using, and we have the Seventh Fleet, which nobody wants to use, and in between our options are more constrained," he said.
  • (19) It would leave us facing a world nobody would want to inhabit.
  • (20) Trump on replacing healthcare law that took years to craft: 'Nobody knew it could be so complicated' Read more Trump held meetings with state governors and health insurance company executives at the White House on Monday.