hash
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EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From French hacher (“to chop”), from Old French hache (“axe”).
NounEdit
hash (plural hashes)
- Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together.
- 1633, Samuel Pepys, Diary
- I had for them, after oysters, at first course, a hash of rabbits, a lamb, and a rare chine of beef.
- 1633, Samuel Pepys, Diary
- A confused mess.
- 1847, Charlotte Yonge, Scenes and Characters
- Oh! no, not Naylor's--the girls have made a hash there, as they do everything else; but we will settle her before they come out again.
- 1847, Charlotte Yonge, Scenes and Characters
- (typography) The # symbol (octothorpe, pound).
- (computing) The result generated by a hash function.
- A new mixture of old material; a second preparation or exhibition; a rehashing.
- Walpole
- I cannot bear elections, and still less the hash of them over again in a first session.
- Walpole
- A hash run; a sort of paperchase organised by the Hash House Harriers.
- 1987, Susan Scott-Stevens, Foreign Consultants and Counterparts (page 81)
- Most hashes are planned as family affairs, with a shorter "puppy" trail laid for the children.
- 1987, Susan Scott-Stevens, Foreign Consultants and Counterparts (page 81)
SynonymsEdit
- (result generated by hash function): checksum
- (symbol): hash mark, hash sign, hashtag, number sign, octothorn, octothorpe, pound, pound sign, sharp sign, square
Derived termsEdit
Terms derived from hash (noun)
TranslationsEdit
chopped food, especially meat and potatoes
confused mess
the # symbol
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key generated by a hash function
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VerbEdit
hash (third-person singular simple present hashes, present participle hashing, simple past and past participle hashed)
- (transitive) To chop into small pieces, to make into a hash.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
- In like manner, we shall represent human nature at first to the keen appetite of our reader, in that more plain and simple manner in which it is found in the country, and shall hereafter hash and ragoo it with all the high French and Italian seasoning of affectation and vice which courts and cities afford.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
- To make a quick, rough version
- We need to quickly hash up some plans.
- (computing, transitive) To transform according to a hash function.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
to chop into small pieces
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Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
hash (uncountable)
TranslationsEdit
clipped form of hashish
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AnagramsEdit
DanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English hash [1966], short for hashish, from Arabic حَشِيش (ḥašīš, “hay, dried herb”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
hash c (singular definite hashen, not used in plural form)