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Hash

//ˈhæʃ// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together.

    "Near-synonym: scramble"

  2. 2
    Hashish, a drug derived from the cannabis plant. slang, uncountable
  3. 3
    purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen wordnet
  4. 4
    A confused mess.

    "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."

  5. 5
    chopped meat mixed with potatoes and browned wordnet
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  1. 6
    The # symbol (octothorpe, pound).

    "The keyboard 10 has four named keys (not shown) marked “VIEWDATA”, “PROGRAM”, “PAGE TRANSMIT”, and “CLEAR” and two further keys (marked respectively with an asterisk and a hash symbol) in addition to the numeric keys previously mentioned."

  2. 7
    The result generated by a hash function.
  3. 8
    One guess made by a mining computer in the effort of finding the correct answer which releases the next unit of cryptocurrency; see also hashrate.
  4. 9
    A new mixture of old material; a second preparation or exhibition; a rehashing.

    "October 28, 1752, Horace Walpole, letter to Sir Horace Mann I cannot bear elections, and still less the hash of them over again in a first session."

  5. 10
    A hash run.

    "Most hashes are planned as family affairs, with a shorter "puppy" trail laid for the children."

  6. 11
    A stupid fellow. Scotland
Verb
  1. 1
    To chop into small pieces, to make into a hash. transitive

    "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. 2
    chop up wordnet
  3. 3
    To make a quick, rough version.

    "We need to quickly hash up some plans."

  4. 4
    To transform according to a hash function. transitive

    "Recall that our goal with the distributed Merkle tree (DMT) is to hash together all the messages sent during the execution of the distributed algorithm, in such a way that a node can produce openings for its own sent messages."

  5. 5
    To make a mess of (something); to ruin. colloquial, transitive

    "[Julie Jacquette]: "All right, you've hashed it. I knew damn well you should have stayed in the other room. Now he knows he'll have to kill you too.""

Etymology

Etymology 1

From French hacher (“to chop”), from Middle French hacher, from Old French hacher, from Old French hache (“axe”), from Frankish *happjā (“axe”). Compare also Old English ġehæċċa (“sausage meat”, literally “that which is hacked or chopped up”).

Etymology 2

From French hacher (“to chop”), from Middle French hacher, from Old French hacher, from Old French hache (“axe”), from Frankish *happjā (“axe”). Compare also Old English ġehæċċa (“sausage meat”, literally “that which is hacked or chopped up”).

Etymology 3

Clipping of hashish.

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