The difference between Cipher and Nothing
When used as nouns, cipher means a numeric character, whereas nothing means something trifling, or of no consequence or importance.
Cipher is also verb with the meaning: to calculate.
Nothing is also pronoun with the meaning: not any thing.
Nothing is also adverb with the meaning: not at all.
check bellow for the other definitions of Cipher and Nothing
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Cipher as a noun:
A numeric character.
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Cipher as a noun:
Any text character.
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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."
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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."
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Cipher as a noun (cryptography):
A cryptographic system using an algorithm that converts letters or sequences of bits into ciphertext.
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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."
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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."
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Cipher as a noun (music):
A fault in an organ valve which causes a pipe to sound continuously without the key having been pressed.
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Cipher as a noun:
A hip-hop jam session.
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Cipher as a noun:
The path (usually circular) shared cannabis takes through a group, an occasion of cannabis smoking.
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Cipher as a noun:
Someone or something of no importance.
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Cipher as a noun (dated):
Zero.
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Cipher as a verb (intransitive, regional, dated):
To calculate.
Examples:
"I never learned much more than how to read and cipher."
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Cipher as a verb (intransitive):
To write in code or cipher.
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Cipher as a verb (intransitive, music):
Of an organ pipe: to sound independent of the organ.
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Cipher as a verb (obsolete):
To decipher.
Examples:
"rfquotek Shakespeare"
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Nothing as a pronoun:
Not any thing; no thing.
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Nothing as a pronoun:
An absence of anything, including empty space, brightness, darkness, matter, or a vacuum.
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Nothing as a noun:
Something trifling, or of no consequence or importance.
Examples:
"- What happened to your face?<br>- It's nothing."
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Nothing as a noun:
A trivial remark (especially in the term ).
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Nothing as a noun:
A nobody (insignificant person).
Examples:
"You're nothing to me now!"
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Nothing as an adverb (archaic):
Not at all; in no way.
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Compare with synonyms and related words:
- cipher vs number
- cipher vs numeral
- cipher vs monogram
- cipher vs code
- cipher vs nobody
- cipher vs nonentity
- cipher vs nonentity
- cipher vs nothing
- cipher vs nullity
- cipher vs naught
- cipher vs nought
- cipher vs nothing
- cipher vs oh
- cipher vs zero
- naught vs nothing
- jack vs nothing
- nada vs nothing
- nothing vs zip
- nothing vs zippo
- nothing vs zilch
- nothing vs squat
- nix vs nothing
- bugger all vs nothing
- jack shit vs nothing
- nothing vs sod all
- fuck all vs nothing
- dick vs nothing
- nobody vs nothing
- no one vs nothing
- nothing vs nowhere
- nothing vs nothingness