rehash
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (verb) IPA(key): /ɹiːˈhæʃ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (noun) IPA(key): /ˈɹiːˌhæʃ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -æʃ
Verb edit
rehash (third-person singular simple present rehashes, present participle rehashing, simple past and past participle rehashed)
- (transitive) To hash (chop food into small pieces) again.
- 1942 July 1, The Newcastle and Maitland Catholic Sentinel, Newcastle, NSW, page 224, column 2:
- I never did care for Sunday joint that was served up cold on Monday, hashed on Tuesday, rissoled on Wednesday, and re-hashed on Thursday[.]
- (transitive) To repeat with minor variation.
- Today's parliamentary session only rehashed last week's arguments.
- The CEO of the company only rehashed a speech for the news conference.
- The general rehashed plans for the war.
- (transitive) To analyze a prior contentious or embarrassing event.
- Let's not rehash what we did last night.
- (transitive, computing) To recompute the structure of a hash table, taking into account any newly added items.
Translations edit
to rework old material, redo some work, with some variations
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Noun edit
rehash (plural rehashes)
- Something reworked, or made up from old materials.
- He wrote a bad rehash of an earlier essay.
- (computing) A recomputation of the structure of a hash table, taking into account any newly added items.
Translations edit
something reworked, or made up from old materials
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