(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.
Nonentity
Definition:
(n.) A thing not existing.
(n.) Nonexistence; the negation of being.
(n.) A person or thing of little or no account.
Example Sentences:
(1) A nonentity introduces me to a moderately talented guitarist named Johnny Marr who is friends with a useless drummer called Mike Joyce and a bassist whose name I can't remember.
(2) But then personne turned out to be called Joseph Laniel, a nonentity who was prime minister from June 1953 to June 1954.
(3) As well as providing an excuse for Corbyn to promote nonentities, refusal denies senior MPs a ready-made platform from which to express their dissent.” The party reported that a further 15,000 people had joined the party since Corbyn’s election on Saturday.
(4) "The prime minister is a nonentity, except as the appointee of Asif Ali Zardari."
(5) As merely the king-in-waiting he is a constitutional nonentity.
(6) Apple once held 18 per cent of the computing market, but years of clumsy marketing, bungled relationships with developers, and unruly product lines left it almost a nonentity: a mere 3 per cent of the computing population used Macs prior to the iMac.
(7) Crushing the rival bids of political nonentities like Dmitry Medvedev is child's play for him.
(8) In the span of a year he burnt bridges with both the Los Angeles Lakers and the Dallas Mavericks, while becoming something of a nonentity on the court.
(9) Yet again, this spoiled nonentity is cosseted by his party: though he stands as an “independent”, the Conservatives will try to save his bacon by setting no candidate against him, to avoid splitting their vote.
(10) Unlike in France or Germany, engineers are a bit of a nonentity here.
(11) In Stamford Way, he repeatedly attacks Clegg as a nonentity whose only claim to fame is his U-turn over student tuition fees – " a protoplasmic, amoebic, vacillating, jelly of indecision".
(12) He said the victims were informed that their new employer was a nonentity and that they had been ripped off on arrival at what they expected to be their first day of work.
(13) Vice-president Abd al-Rab Mansur al-Hadi, a Saleh appointee and a former military man from the south who is something of a nonentity, has temporarily taken charge as required by the constitution .
(14) The word "spasm" has been purposefully omitted as it is essentially a nonentity in vascular trauma.
(15) As well as providing an excuse for Corbyn to promote nonentities, refusal denies senior MPs a ready-made platform from which to express their dissent.
(16) A nervous nation, unsure what it has done to itself, is subject to the tedious, vituperative comments from one Conservative nonentity about another.
(17) Its outrage was directed at the bland evil of war, the US Army Air Force (USAAF), and the bureaucratic scheming of military nonentities.