hash

English Online Dictionary. What means hash‎? What does hash mean?

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: hăsh, IPA^(key): /ˈhæʃ/
• Rhymes: -æʃ

Etymology 1

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

Noun

hash (plural hashes)

1. Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together.

   Near-synonym: scramble
2. A confused mess.
4. (typography) The # symbol (octothorpe, pound).

   Synonyms: crunch, hash mark, hash sign, hashtag, number sign, octothorn, octothorpe, pound, pound sign, square

5. (computing) The result generated by a hash function.

   Synonym: checksum

6. (computing, cryptocurrencies) 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.
7. 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.

8. A hash run.
9. (Scotland) A stupid fellow.

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Verb

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.
2. To make a quick, rough version. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

3. (computing, transitive) To transform according to a hash function.
4. (transitive, colloquial) To make a mess of (something); to ruin.

Derived terms

• hash over
• hash out
• rehash

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Etymology 2

Clipping of hashish.

Noun

hash (uncountable)

2. (slang) Hashish, a drug derived from the cannabis plant.

Derived terms

• hash pipe

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References

• “hash”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “hash”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Shah, ahhs, hahs, shah, shāh

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English hash, short for hashish, from Arabic حَشِيش (ḥašīš, “hay, dried herb”). First attested in 1966.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hasj/, [haɕ]

Noun

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

1. hash, hashish Not used anymore to denote dried herbs.
2. hash a drug derived from the cannabis plant.

Derived terms

• hashryger

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Portuguese

Noun

hash m (plural hashes)

1. (computing) hash (key generated by a hash function)