Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to cipher
Participle: ciphered
Gerund: ciphering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | cipher |
| you | cipher |
| he;she;it | ciphers |
| we | cipher |
| you | cipher |
| they | cipher |
Perfect
| I | have ciphered |
| you | have ciphered |
| he;she;it | has ciphered |
| we | have ciphered |
| you | have ciphered |
| they | have ciphered |
Past
| I | ciphered |
| you | ciphered |
| he;she;it | ciphered |
| we | ciphered |
| you | ciphered |
| they | ciphered |
Pluperfect
| I | had ciphered |
| you | had ciphered |
| he;she;it | had ciphered |
| we | had ciphered |
| you | had ciphered |
| they | had ciphered |
Future
| I | will cipher |
| you | will cipher |
| he;she;it | will cipher |
| we | will cipher |
| you | will cipher |
| they | will cipher |
Future Perfect
| I | will have ciphered |
| you | will have ciphered |
| he;she;it | will have ciphered |
| we | will have ciphered |
| you | will have ciphered |
| they | will have ciphered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | cipher |
| you | cipher |
| he;she;it | cipher |
| we | cipher |
| you | cipher |
| they | cipher |
Perfect
| I | have ciphered |
| you | have ciphered |
| he;she;it | have ciphered |
| we | have ciphered |
| you | have ciphered |
| they | have ciphered |
Imperfect
| I | ciphered |
| you | ciphered |
| he;she;it | ciphered |
| we | ciphered |
| you | ciphered |
| they | ciphered |
Pluperfect
| I | had ciphered |
| you | had ciphered |
| he;she;it | had ciphered |
| we | had ciphered |
| you | had ciphered |
| they | had ciphered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would cipher |
| you | would cipher |
| he;she;it | would cipher |
| we | would cipher |
| you | would cipher |
| they | would cipher |
Perfect
| I | would have ciphered |
| you | would have ciphered |
| he;she;it | would have ciphered |
| we | would have ciphered |
| you | would have ciphered |
| they | would have ciphered |
Imperative
| you | cipher |
| we | Let's cipher |
| you | cipher |
Verbs conjugated like 'cipher'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'cipher'
cypher,
caper,
chipper,
cinder,
copper,
copter,
cosher,
decipher,
dither,
encipher,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process
- calculate, compute, reckon, supputate, suppute, work out
- calculate
- compute, count, add, figure, reckon, estimate
Antonyms
- calculate
- miscalculate, guess, chance, risk
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1399, from M.L.
cifra, from Arabic
sifr "zero," lit. "empty, nothing," from
safara "to be empty," loan-transl. of Skt.
sunya-s "empty." Came to Europe with Arabic numerals. Original meaning "zero," then "any numeral," then (first in Fr. and It.) "coded message" (first attested in Eng. 1528), since early codes often substituted numbers for letters. The verb meaning "to do arithmetic (with Arabic numerals) first attested 1530.
2. 14th century. From Middle English cifre, from Old French cyfre, cyffre (French chiffre), ultimately from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “zero, empty”), from صَفَرَ (ṣafara, “to be empty”). Doublet of chiffre and zero. Sense 8 (a fault in an organ valve) may be a different word. See: French '
chiffre'.
Sample Sentences
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I never learned much more than how to read and cipher.
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For the mischief that one blockhead, that every blockhead does, in a world so feracious, teeming with endless results as ours, no ciphering will sum up. [1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “Abbot Samson”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk), page 88:]
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So I must baffle at the hint / And cipher at the sign, / And make much blunder, if at last / I take the clew divine. [a. 1887 (date written), Emily Dickinson, “[Book IV.—Time and Eternity] (please specify the chapter or poem)”, in Mabel Loomis Todd and T[homas] W[entworth] Higginson, editors, Poems, First Series, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1890, →OCLC, page 115:]
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Can you cipher too—along with your reading and writing? [1979, Octavia E[stelle] Butler, Kindred:]
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Yea the illiterate that know not how
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To cipher what is writ in learned bookes,
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VVill cote my lothſome treſpaſſe in my lookes. [1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC, signature [F4], recto:]