hash

== English == === Pronunciation === enPR: hăsh, IPA(key): /ˈhæʃ/ Rhymes: -æʃ === 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”). ==== Noun ==== hash (plural hashes) Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together. Near-synonym: scramble A confused mess. (typography) The # symbol (octothorpe, pound). Synonyms: see Thesaurus:number sign (computing) The result generated by a hash function. Synonym: checksum (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. 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. A hash run. (Scotland) A stupid fellow. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== hash (third-person singular simple present hashes, present participle hashing, simple past and past participle hashed) (transitive) To chop into small pieces, to make into a hash. To make a quick, rough version. (computing, transitive) To transform according to a hash function. (transitive, colloquial) To make a mess of (something); to ruin. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === Clipping of hashish. ==== Noun ==== hash (uncountable) (slang) Hashish, a drug derived from the cannabis plant. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === References === “hash”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “hash”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →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) hash, hashish Not used anymore to denote dried herbs. hash a drug derived from the cannabis plant. ==== Derived terms ==== hashryger ==== Related terms ==== == Portuguese == === Noun === hash m (plural hashes) (computing) hash (key generated by a hash function)