hash

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.3.2 Related terms 1.3.3 Translations 1.4 Adjective 1.4.1 Derived terms 1.4.2 Translations 1.5 Verb 1.5.1 Derived terms 1.5.2 Translations 2 Danish 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Pronunciation 2.3 Noun

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[edit] Etymology

From French hacher (“‘to chop’”), from Old French hache (“‘axe’”).

[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: hăsh, IPA: /hæʃ/, SAMPA: /h{S/

  Rhymes: -æʃ

[edit] Noun

hash (plural hashes)

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. The # symbol (octothorpe, pound).
4. (computing) The key generated by a hash function.
5. Abbreviation for hashish, a drug derived from the cannabis plant.

[edit] Synonyms

• (key generated by hash function): checksum

[edit] Related terms

• make a hash of

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hash (comparative more hash, superlative most hash)

1. Hashed, chopped into small pieces
   • 1855: William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes

     The Colonel, himself, was great at making hash mutton, hot-pot, curry, and pillau.

2. (computing) Of or relating to the process of hashing or hash coding

[edit] Derived terms

hash browns hash function hash table

hash map hashing hash coding

hash key hash value

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[edit] Verb

to hash (third-person singular simple present hashes, present participle hashing, simple past and past participle hashed)

1. (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.

2. To make a quick, rough version; as in - hash up some plans = make some quick, rough plans.
3. (computing, transitive) To transform according to a hash function.

[edit] Derived terms

• hash out
• rehash

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[edit] Danish

[edit] Etymology

From English hash (1966), short for hashish, from Arabic حشيش (ħashīsh), “‘hay, dried herb’”).

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /hasj/, [haɕ]

[edit] Noun

hash c. (singular definite hashen, not used in plural form)

1. hash, hashish