hash

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Etymology 1 [edit]

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

Noun [edit]

hash (plural hashes)

  1. Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together.
    corn-beef hash
    • 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 result generated by a hash function.
Synonyms [edit]
  • (result generated by hash function): checksum
Derived terms [edit]
Terms derived from hash (noun)
Translations [edit]
chopped food, especially meat and potatoes
confused mess
the # symbol
key generated by a hash function
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Adjective [edit]

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
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
chopped into small pieces
of or related to the process of hash coding

Verb [edit]

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
    We need to quickly hash up some plans.
  3. (computing, transitive) To transform according to a hash function.
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
to chop into small pieces
to make a quick, rough version
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Etymology 2 [edit]

Clipped form of hashish.

Noun [edit]

hash (uncountable)

  1. Hashish, a drug derived from the cannabis plant.
Translations [edit]
clipped form of hashish

Anagrams [edit]

Danish [edit]

Etymology [edit]

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

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: /hasj/, [haɕ]

Noun [edit]

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

  1. hash, hashish
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