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"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "Baconian cipher"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "Bacon's cipher"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "Beaufort cipher"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "bifid cipher"
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "Caesar cipher"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "cipherdom"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "cipherhood"
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "ciphertext"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "ciphony"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "classical cipher"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "cypherpunk"
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "Feistel cipher"
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "Gronsfeld cipher"
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "Julius Caesar cipher"
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "Nihilist cipher"
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "pigpen cipher"
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "Playfair cipher"
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "rail fence cipher"
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "stream cipher"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "subcipher"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "substitution cipher"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "telecipher"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "transposition cipher"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "trifid cipher"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "uncipher"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "Vigenère cipher"
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"etymology_text": "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.",
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{
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},
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"feminine"
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"feminine"
],
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"ref": "1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], “Of diuers memorable things betweene the fall of Adam, and the floud of Noah”, in The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, 1st book, §. VI (Of the Patriarchs deliuering their knowledge by Tradition: and that Enoch writ before the floud), pages 78–79:",
"text": "In ſucceeding times this vnderſtanding wiſedome began to be written in Ciphers, and Characters, and letters bearing the forme of beaſtes, birds, and other creatures; […]",
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}
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "any text character",
"word": "merkki"
}
]
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{
"text": "a painter's cipher",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "an engraver's cipher",
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{
"ref": "1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXIV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 290:",
"text": "Just then, an attendant to whom the Queen had whispered returned; and taking a small case from her hand, Anne produced a bracelet somewhat similar to the very one with which Francesca had parted, excepting that it had her cipher, surrounded by a wreath of fleurs-de-lis. \"Louis, will you offer this to Mademoiselle Carrara?\"",
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"word": "device"
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"word": "monogram"
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"_dis1": "2 0 68 1 9 2 2 2 7 4 1 1 2",
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"roman": "ʼalamet",
"sense": "combination or interweaving of letters",
"word": "علامت"
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{
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"roman": "vénzelʹ",
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]
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"text": "The message was written in a simple cipher. Anyone could figure it out.",
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},
{
"ref": "a. 1716 (date written), [Gilbert] Burnet, “Book II. Of the First Twelve Years of the Reign of King Charles II. from the Year 1660 to the Year 1673.”, in [Gilbert Burnet Jr.], editor, Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volume I, London: […] Thomas Ward […], published 1724, →OCLC, page 257:",
"text": "He was very early engaged in great ſecrets: For his fatherr, apprehending of what fatal conſequence it would have been to the King’s affairs if his correſpondence had been diſcovered by unfaithful Secretaries, engaged him when very young to write all his letters to England in cypher; ſo that he was generally half the day writing in cypher, or decyphering, and was ſo diſcrect, as well as faithful, that nothing was ever diſcovered by him.",
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"code": "bg",
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"roman": "šifrirane",
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"sense": "method for concealing the meaning of text",
"tags": [
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],
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"feminine"
],
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"sense": "method for concealing the meaning of text",
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"sense": "cryptographic system",
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"text": "The message is clearly a cipher, but I can't figure it out.",
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"code": "ca",
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"word": "დაშიფრული ტექსტი"
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],
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "hip-hop jam session",
"word": "la glosa"
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"code": "fi",
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"text": "I never learned much more than how to read and cipher.",
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"ref": "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:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "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:",
"text": "So I must baffle at the hint / And cipher at the sign, / And make much blunder, if at last / I take the clew divine.",
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"ref": "1979, Octavia E[stelle] Butler, Kindred:",
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"text": "Yea the illiterate that know not how\nTo cipher what is writ in learned bookes,\nVVill cote my lothſome treſpaſſe in my lookes.",
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