hash
/ˈhæʃ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.63 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together.
noun
The # symbol (octothorpe, pound).
noun
The result generated by a hash function.
noun
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.
noun
A new mixture of old material; a second preparation or exhibition; a rehashing.
noun
A hash run.
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonym: scramble"
- "I had for them, after oysters, at first course, a hash of rabbits, a lamb, and a rare chine of beef."
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
- "Most hashes are planned as family affairs, with a shorter "puppy" trail laid for the children."
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: hacher, *happjā
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Food.
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
blessed hash
cryptographic hash
distributed hash table
hash algorithm
hash brown
hash browns
hash buster
hash code
Synonyms
scramble
crunch
hash
hash mark /hashmark
hash sign
hashtag
number sign
octothorpe /octothorn
pound
pound sign
square
checksum