cypher

«cypher» in Mova's school dictionary: A person of no importance, a nobody — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (cyphers); also spelt cipher

meaning for a pupil

1) A person of no importance, a nobody. tree →

2) A secret code, or the sign for the figure 0. tree →

sense 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 →
• The cypher message took an hour to read. tree →
• We wrote the number zero as a cypher. tree →

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.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cypher» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.