hash

noun

/ˈhæʃ/

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”).

derived from *happjā✻ — “axe”
derived from hacher
derived from hacher

Definitions

1
Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together.
- Near-synonym: scramble
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
›+ 11 more definitionsshow fewer
1. The result generated by a hash function.
2. One guess made by a mining computer in the effort of finding the correct answer which…
  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.
3. 6
  A new mixture of old material
  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.
4. 7
  A hash run.
  - Most hashes are planned as family affairs, with a shorter "puppy" trail laid for the children.
5. A stupid fellow.
6. 9
  To chop into small pieces, to make into a hash.
  - 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[.]
7. 10
  To make a quick, rough version.
  - 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.
8. 11
  To transform according to a hash function.
  - 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.
9. 12
  To make a mess of (something)
  To make a mess of (something); to ruin.
  - [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."
10. Hashish, a drug derived from the cannabis plant.
11. A surname.

The neighborhood

Derived

blessed hash, cryptographic hash, distributed hash table, geohash, hash algorithm, hashbang, hash brown, hash brownie, 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 · +9 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hash. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA