hash
pronunciation
How to pronounce hash in British English:
UK [hæʃ]
How to pronounce hash in American English:
US [hæʃ]
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- Noun:
- chopped meat mixed with potatoes and browned
- purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen
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- Verb:
- chop up
Word Origin
- hash (v.)
- 1650s, "to hack, chop into small pieces," from French hacher "chop up" (14c.), from Old French hache "ax" (see hatchet). Hash browns (1926) is short for hashed browned potatoes (1886), with the -ed omitted, as in mash potatoes. The hash marks on a football field were so called by 1954, from their similarity to hash marks, armed forces slang for "service stripes on the sleeve of a military uniform" (1909), which supposedly were called that because they mark the number of years one has had free food (that is, hash (n.1)) from the Army; but perhaps there is a connection with the noun form of hatch (v.2).
- hash (n.2)
- short for hashish, 1959.
- hash (n.1)
- "a stew of meat cut into small pieces," 1660s, from hash (v.). Meaning "a mix, a mess" is from 1735.
Example
- 1. Memcached similarly uses a hash function .
- 2. Simple hash key gives dynamodb the distributed hash table abstraction .
- 3. Hash functions can be complex and sophisticated , but modern libraries have good defaults .
- 4. Unable to create hash object for an authenticated message .
- 5. But a transatlantic tendency to make a hash of economic policy makes that too daring a hope .