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Cypher


Definition:

  • (n. & v.) See Cipher.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His bastard Ramsay has shown his colors (whatever color is for sadism), but Roose – who abstains from alcohol and only offers a smirk at Lady Stark here, a frown with Jaime Lannister there – is still a cypher.
  • (2) The keys to each chart are minute, cypher-like instructions, peppered with anecdotes and asides.
  • (3) Turing, frequently referred to as the father of modern computing and artificial intelligence, is best known for his contribution to cracking the code used by the Germans in their Enigma machines during the second world war when he worked for the government code and cypher school at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire.
  • (4) Which is why trying to slot the characters into cyphers for various positions doesn't really work.
  • (5) But Bletchley Park is also the birthplace of modern computing and home to Colossus, the first electronic computer built by the codebreakers in 1943 to crack the Nazi cyphers.
  • (6) References to the role of the Colossus computers in breaking German messages using the Lorenz cypher were clarified to show that they were only a part of the operation.
  • (7) The roll runs includes Audrey Abbot (later Weston), an operator of the bombe machine that helped break the German Enigma cyphers, who worked there from 1942 to 1945, and Anne Zuppinger (later Hill), who recruited, trained and oversaw bombe operators.
  • (8) With dramas like Game Of Thrones this works well, but it's hard to find anything to analyse in the tissue-thin contents of a pretendy talent contest judged by inarticulate hate cyphers.
  • (9) (Two Colossi survived, and moved with GC&CS – the Government Code and Cypher School, newly renamed as GCHQ – to Cheltenham in the 1950s, but they too were dismantled by the end of the decade.)
  • (10) Working in Hut 8 at Bletchley Park, then the home of GCHQ's forerunner, the Government Code and Cypher School, Turing found a way of reading messages sent by the Germans, using a codebreaking machine called the bombe.
  • (11) My father used to say that she had cracked a vital part of a German naval cypher, but all she will say now is that she found a repeat in something and everyone got excited.
  • (12) Optimal conditions have been developed for the isolation and reactivation of highly coupled, demembranated ciliary axonemes from newt lungs [Hard, Cypher, and Schabtach, 1988, Cell Motil.
  • (13) One company commander, given the cypher "Soldier D", described in his statement how a large Protestant crowd surrounded troops who arrested a Catholic man armed with a shotgun.
  • (14) It was at Bletchley Park in February 1944 that the Colossus computers were used to help break German messages coded using the Lorenz cypher, confirming that the Germans had fallen for the deception.
  • (15) Demembranated axonemes isolated from newt lung ciliated cells show a complex beat frequency response to varying [MgATP] and temperature [Hard and Cypher, 1992, Cell Motil.

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