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lightweight vs cipher

cipher vs lightweight

lightweight and cipher both are nouns.

lightweight is an adjective but cipher is not an adjective.

lightweight is not a verb while cipher is a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
lightweight Yes Yes No No
cipher Yes No Yes No
As nouns, cipher is a hypernym of lightweight; that is, cipher is a word with a broader meaning than lightweight:
  • lightweight: someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous
  • cipher: a person of no influence
Other hypernyms of lightweight include cypher, nobody, nonentity.
lightweight (noun) cipher (noun)
A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the featherweight division and lighter than those in the welterweight division. a secret method of writing
a professional boxer who weighs between 131 and 135 pounds a message written in a secret code
a wrestler who weighs 139-154 pounds a person of no influence
someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential
an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 132 pounds a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
lightweight (adjective) cipher (adjective)
weighing relatively little compared with another item or object of similar use
having no importance or influence
lightweight (verb) cipher (verb)
make a mathematical calculation or computation
convert ordinary language into code
Difference between lightweight and cipher

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