English主要词典
cipher
Universal Words
(also cypher) noun
1 [U,C] a secret way of writing, especially one in which a set of letters or symbols is used to represent others:
a message in cipher
seealsoDECIPHER
2 [C] (formal, disapproving) a person or thing of no importance:
To her employers she was a mere cipher, with no human feelings at all.
3 (BrE) the first letters of sb's name combined in a design and used to mark things:
The glasses were engraved with the Queen's cipher.
