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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cypher/#m1)

2) A secret code, or the sign for the figure 0. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cypher/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cypher/#x1)
- The cypher message took an hour to read. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cypher/#x2)
- We wrote the number zero as a cypher. [tree →](https://md.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.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cypher» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cypher/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.