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What is the difference between to decipher and to cipher, is there any?

Question #42083. Asked by pjotr.

griffinj
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griffinj
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Cipher is to convert text to code (or to solve by means of arithmetic), and decipher is to convert the code back to plain text (or to read and interpret). Another example: encode and decode.

Dec 07 2003, 5:54 PM
lothruin
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lothruin
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Um, yes. One definition of the word "decipher" is decode. One definition of the word "cipher" is to put into code. They are opposites.

Dec 07 2003, 5:54 PM
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