Tom was writing cryptic notes in a cipher.
Source: tatoeba (6108746)
Cipher
/ˈsaɪfə/
Synonyms for "cipher" (254 found)
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Noun(12 words)
common mancomputeconventional symbolcountermarkcountersigncountersignaturecounterstampcrosscryptoanalysiscryptoanalyticscryptogramcryptographcryptographercryptographydecipherdevicedigitdissolvedividedope
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Related words (127)
john hancockjumblelay figureletterlexigraphic characterlightweightlittle fellowlittle guylogogramlogotypelove knotman in the streetman of strawmarkmark of signaturemeasuremediocritymonogrammultiplynada
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naughtnebbishnichtsnihilnilnixno such thingnobodynobody one knowsnoisenonentitynotationnothingnothing at allnothing on earthnothing whatevernullitynumbernumeralnumeroobscurityphonetic characterphonetic symbolpictogrampictographic characterpip squeakpip-squeakpunkpuppetpushoverpuzzle outreckonresolveruntscorescramblescrubsealsecret languagesecret writingshrimpsigilsignsign manualsignaturesignetslangsmall frysmall potatosmall potatoessolvesquirtsquitsubscriptionsubtractsyllabicsymbolsymbolic systemsymbolismsymbolizationsymbologysympathetic inktake account oftallything of naughttokentotemtotem poletrifletypeunravelunriddlevisavisewhiffetwhippersnapperwhole numberwork outwritingwritten characterxzerozilch
Noun(20 words)
Adjective(1 words)
private code
Verb(3 words)
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10 entriesCaesar cipheradditiondivisionenciphered textencrypted messagemultiplicationsubstitution ciphersubtractiontransposition cipherzero digit
Collocations
7 entriesCaesar ciphercipher textencoded dataencrypted messageencryption keysecret codesubstitution cipher
Inflections
3 entriesDerivations
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1 entrieswork out
Sample sentences
26 total sentences available.
The information may be given in cipher.
Source: tatoeba (6108749)
My best guess is it needs an asymmetric cipher.
Source: tatoeba (8187961)
The malware was stealing private encryption keys and private encryption certificates used to cipher connections and locally stored data.
Source: tatoeba (11389103)
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