Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A system of secret or cipher writing; a cipher.
- noun A device for translating plaintext into ciphertext.
- noun A device for deciphering codes and ciphers.
- transitive verb To write (a message, for example) in code or cipher.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Something written in secret characters or cipher.
- noun A system of secret writing; a cipher.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Cipher; something written in cipher.
from , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
cipher orcryptogram . - noun A
device used forencrypting ordecrypting text. - verb rare To write text using a
code or cipher.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a device for deciphering codes and ciphers
- noun a piece of writing in code or cipher
- noun a secret method of writing
Etymologies
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Examples
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Now, at the very first letter Jarriquez was stopped in his calculations, for the difference in alphabetical position between the d and the p gave him not one cipher, but two, namely, 12, and in this kind of cryptograph only one letter can take the place of another.
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_p_ gave him not one cipher, but two, namely, 12, and in this kind of cryptograph only one letter can take the place of another.
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In the present instance we see it doubled less than five times, although the cryptograph is brief.
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But be assured that the specimen before us appertains to the very simplest species of cryptograph.
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At the same time in England, mathematician Alan Turing, a seminal figure in the foundations of modern computer science and the mastermind who helped break the German Enigma cryptograph machine during the Second World War, wrote about the evi🌳dence for psi:
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At the same time in England, mathematician Alan Turing, a seminal figure in the foundations of modern computer science and the mastermind who helped break the German Enigma cryptograph machine during the Second World War, wrote about the evidence for🌟 psi:
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As it was, I assumed the cryptograph to be English.
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At the same time in England, mathematician Alan Turing, a seminal figure in the foundations of modern computer science and the mastermind who helped break the German Enigma cryptograph machine during the Second Wo✨rld War, wrote about the evidence for psi:
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Despite Frere's exposure of his cryptograph, h♛e had won the confidence of Meekin; and into that worthy creatu♈re's ear he poured
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Poe used dozens of words which I didn't understand including cryptograph but I knew what a crypt was.
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