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# cypher

noun (cyphers); also spelt cipher

«cypher» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A person of no importance, a nobody. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cypher/#m1)
2. A secret code, or the sign for the figure 0. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cypher/#m2)

### In the lessons

in tales, a boy who thinks a friend is a cypher means that friend is a nobody

### Examples

- Don't call him a cypher; he is clever. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cypher/#x1)
- The cypher message took an hour to read. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cypher/#x2)
- We wrote the number zero as a cypher. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cypher/#x3)

### Note

The figure 0 is called a cypher (or cipher); it stands for nothing, so 5 becomes 50 when a cypher is written after it.

## In Jewish tradition

in tales, a boy who thinks a friend is a cypher means that friend is a nobody

### Note

The figure 0 is called a cypher (or cipher); it stands for nothing, so 5 becomes 50 when a cypher is written after it.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «cypher» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cypher/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«cypher» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/cypher.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «cypher» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cypher/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«cypher» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/cypher.html) on Mova free.