单词 | recipher |
释义 | reciphern. rare. Text that has been reciphered. ΚΠ 1975 C. Mott-Radclyffe Foreign Body in Eye ii. 28 I remember one telegram, all in re-cypher, beginning, ‘I saw the Minister of Foreign Affairs on return from leave yesterday. His Excellency remarked how sunburnt I was looking after my recent holiday in Ireland.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). recipherv. transitive. To encipher (text that is already in code). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > code, cipher > express in code [verb (transitive)] > convert into code > second code recipher1863 recode1923 superencipher1957 transcode1962 1863 Boston Rev. Nov. 578 (heading) Colenso's Ciphering Re-ciphered. 1917 Guardian 10 Sept. 5/1 Many telegrams seem to have been directed to the Swedish Legation at Buenos Ayres, the German Legation there reciphering them. 1963 Times 21 May 7/3 He said the purpose of such a table would be to convert plain language letters or punctuation into figures which could then be subsequently reciphered on a reciphering pad. 1993 H. Dryden in F. H. Hinsley & A. Stripp Codebreakers xxii. 204 They took longer to process, as they were reciphered by daily tear-off key sheets. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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