cryptograph
Americannoun
-
a system of secret writing; cipher.
-
a device for translating clear text into cipher.
noun
-
something written in code or cipher
-
a code using secret symbols ( cryptograms )
-
a device for translating text into cipher, or vice versa
Etymology
Origin of cryptograph
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
A cryptograph used to manually code and decode messages—technology that was decades out-of-date by 2000.
From Slate ● May 9, 2018
As he did, the word cryptograph, a few paragraphs below, flashed into his vision like a red traffic light.
From Time Magazine Archive
There are the cherished baths, where Dilly solved his cryptograph ic riddles and Eddie planned the next week's Punch.
From Time Magazine Archive
Natural history is not a cryptograph to be deciphered, it is a series of facts and incidents to be observed and recorded.
From Ways of Nature by John Burroughs
Referring, now, to the beginning of the cryptograph, we find the combination, 53 ‡‡†.
From Short-Stories by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
