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Noun cypher has 5 senses
- zero, 0, nought, cipher, cypher - a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
 
--1 is a kind of digit, figure 
 - nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip - 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"
 
--2 is a kind of relative quantity 
--2 has particulars: 
 - cipher, cypher, nobody, nonentity - a person of no influence
 
--3 is a kind of commoner, common man, common person 
--3 has particulars: 
 - cipher, cypher, cryptograph, secret code - a secret method of writing
 
--4 is a kind of code 
 - cipher, cypher - a message written in a secret code
 
--5 is a kind of message 
  
Verb cypher has 2 senses
- encode, code, encipher, cipher, cypher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code - convert ordinary language into code; "We should encode the message for security reasons"
 
--1 is one way to write 
Sample sentence: 
 Somebody ----s something 
 - calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure - make a mathematical calculation or computation
 
--2 is one way to reason 
Sample sentences: 
 Somebody ----s something 
 Somebody ----s that CLAUSE 
  
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