What's the difference between cypher and nonentity?

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.

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.

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