cipher
英 ['saɪfə]
美['saɪfɚ]
- n. 密码；暗号；零
- vi. 使用密码；计算；做算术
- vt. 计算；做算术；将…译成密码
英英释意
- 1. a message written in a secret code
- 2. a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
- 3. a quantity of no importance;
- "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"
- "reduced to nil all the work we had done"
- "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"
- "it was all for naught"
- "I didn't hear zilch about it"
- 4. a person of no influence
- 5. a secret method of writing