The difference between Cipher and Nought
When used as nouns, cipher means a numeric character, whereas nought means nothing.
When used as verbs, cipher means to calculate, whereas nought means to abase, to set at nought.
Nought is also pronoun with the meaning: nothing.
Nought is also adverb with the meaning: to no extent.
Nought is also adjective with the meaning: good for nothing.
check bellow for the other definitions of Cipher and Nought
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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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Nought as a noun:
Nothing; something which does not exist.
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Nought as a noun:
A thing or person of no worth or value; nil.
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Nought as a noun (UK):
Not any quantity of number; zero; the score of no points in a game.
Examples:
"'0.4 — nought point four / zero point four"
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Nought as a noun (UK):
The figure or character representing, or having the shape of, zero.
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Nought as an adjective (obsolete):
Good for nothing; worthless.
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Nought as an adjective:
Wicked, immoral.
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Nought as a verb:
To abase, to set at nought.
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Nought as an adverb:
To no extent; in no way; not at all.
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Nought as an adverb:
Not.
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Nought as a pronoun:
Nothing; zero.