[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a secret method of writing or recording data, such as by substituting or adding letters or numbers, using specially formed symbols, or the like; code: cryptography .The spies exchanged messages using a complex cipher.The encryption software creates unbreakable ciphers for secure communication.", "writing, or a piece of writing, done by a secret method; a coded message:Hostile agents intercepted the cipher and began trying to figure out its meaning.", "the key to a secret method of writing:After a year of studying the coded messages, the analysts were no closer to discovering the cipher.", "someone or something that is not understood; mystery or enigma:I just can’t figure him out—he’s a complete cipher to me.", "zero(def1) zero(def1).", "a person or thing of no influence or importance; nonentity:Having lost the party leadership, she is now a mere cipher on the political scene.", "Usuallycypher.a performance by a group of rappers, hip-hop artists, or break dancers who take turns improvising individual verses, dances, etc.an individual verse, dance, etc., that is part of such a performance.", "a performance by a group of rappers, hip-hop artists, or break dancers who take turns improvising individual verses, dances, etc.", "an individual verse, dance, etc., that is part of such a performance.", "any of the Arabic numerals, such as1, 2,or3,or any number written with such numerals, such as476.", "Arabic numerical notation collectively:The date is MXML in Roman numerals, or 1950 in cipher.", "a combination of letters, such as the initials of a name, in one design; monogram:The cipher for Queen Elizabeth II had an E entwined with an R for regina, Latin for “queen,” on either side of a Roman numeral II."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to use figures or numerals arithmetically; do arithmetic:He had never learned to read or write, but he could cipher.", "to write messages in or as if in a secret code."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to convert into code; encrypt:The program works by ciphering or scrambling the data.", "to figure out the meaning of; interpret or decode (often used without):Using a good phrase book, the tourist was able to cipher out what people were saying.", "to calculate numerically; figure (often used without):I tried to cipher out the interest on the loan, compounded over five years."]}]