hash
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
computing
cryptocurrencies
cryptocurrency
engineering
finance
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
typography
Etymology: 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”).
Inflected forms:
form: hashes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hashes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hashing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hashed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hashed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: scramble
I had for them, after oysters, at first course, a hash of rabbits, a lamb, and a rare chine of beef.
gloss: A confused mess.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: The # symbol (octothorpe, pound).
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: The result generated by a hash function.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A new mixture of old material; a second preparation or exhibition; a rehashing.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A hash run.
pos: noun
examples: Most hashes are planned as family affairs, with a shorter "puppy" trail laid for the children.
gloss: A stupid fellow.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
gloss: To chop into small pieces, to make into a hash.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
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[.]
gloss: To make a quick, rough version.
pos: verb
examples: We need to quickly hash up some plans.
Buchman’s device is to hash together successfully the “good” words—democracy, peace, morality and God—packaging them in a few cliches.
Another partial throwback during this period was Franc Roddam’s The Bride (1984), which manages to hash together undigested echoes of Universal as well as Hammer in the manner of the more lethargic kind of pop promo.
gloss: To transform according to a hash function.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To make a mess of (something); to ruin.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
transitive
examples: [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."
Derived words: blessed hash
cryptographic hash
distributed hash table
geohash
hash algorithm
hashbang
hash brown
hash browns
hash buster
hash code
hash coding
hash collision
hash function
hash house
hashhouse
hashing
hashkey
hashlock
hash map
hash mark
hash oil
hash rocket
hash sign
hash-slinger
hash slinger
hash table
hashtag
hash trail
hash-trap
hash tree
hash up
hash value
make a hash of
megahash
perceptual hash
petahash
settle someone's hash
shebang
terahash
tied hash
unblessed hash
hashlike
hashable
hasher
hash out
hash over
rehash
unhash
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