The difference between Cipher and Monogram

When used as nouns, cipher means a numeric character, whereas monogram means a picture drawn in line only, before the colour and/or shading is applied.

When used as verbs, cipher means to calculate, whereas monogram means to mark something with a monogram.


check bellow for the other definitions of Cipher and Monogram

  1. Cipher as a noun:

    A numeric character.

  2. Cipher as a noun:

    Any text character.

  3. Cipher as a noun:

    A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name; a device; a monogram.

    Examples:

    "a painter's cipher, an engraver's cipher, etc."

  4. Cipher as a noun:

    A method of transforming a text in order to conceal its meaning.

    Examples:

    "The message was written in a simple cipher. Anyone could figure it out."

  5. Cipher as a noun (cryptography):

    A cryptographic system using an algorithm that converts letters or sequences of bits into ciphertext.

  6. Cipher as a noun:

    Ciphertext; a message concealed via a cipher.

    Examples:

    "The message is clearly a cipher, but I can't figure it out."

  7. Cipher as a noun:

    A grouping of three digits in a number, especially when delimited by commas or periods:

    Examples:

    "The probability is 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000 — a number having five ciphers of zeros."

  8. Cipher as a noun (music):

    A fault in an organ valve which causes a pipe to sound continuously without the key having been pressed.

  9. Cipher as a noun:

    A hip-hop jam session.

  10. Cipher as a noun:

    The path (usually circular) shared cannabis takes through a group, an occasion of cannabis smoking.

  11. Cipher as a noun:

    Someone or something of no importance.

  12. Cipher as a noun (dated):

    Zero.

  1. Cipher as a verb (intransitive, regional, dated):

    To calculate.

    Examples:

    "I never learned much more than how to read and cipher."

  2. Cipher as a verb (intransitive):

    To write in code or cipher.

  3. Cipher as a verb (intransitive, music):

    Of an organ pipe: to sound independent of the organ.

  4. Cipher as a verb (obsolete):

    To decipher.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Shakespeare"

  1. Monogram as a noun (obsolete):

    A picture drawn in line only, before the colour and/or shading is applied; an outline sketch.

  1. Monogram as a noun (obsolete, rare):

    A sentence consisting of only one line, or an epigram consisting of only one verse, of poetry.

  1. Monogram as a noun:

    A design composed of one or more letters, often intertwined, used as an identifying mark of an individual or institution.

  1. Monogram as a verb (transitive):

    To mark something with a monogram.