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

  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. Nought as a noun:

    Nothing; something which does not exist.

  2. Nought as a noun:

    A thing or person of no worth or value; nil.

  3. 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"

  4. Nought as a noun (UK):

    The figure or character representing, or having the shape of, zero.

  1. Nought as an adjective (obsolete):

    Good for nothing; worthless.

  2. Nought as an adjective:

    Wicked, immoral.

  1. Nought as a verb:

    To abase, to set at nought.

  1. Nought as an adverb:

    To no extent; in no way; not at all.

  2. Nought as an adverb:

    Not.

  1. Nought as a pronoun:

    Nothing; zero.