hash

Noun · Verb
Synonyms: hashishhasheeshhaschisch

WordNet 3.0

Noun (2)

  1. chopped meat mixed with potatoes and browned
  2. purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogenSynonyms: hashishhasheeshhaschisch

Verb (1)

  1. chop up“hash the potatoes”
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Hash \Hash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hashed (h[a^]sht); p. pr. & vb. n. Hashing.] [From Hash, n.: cf. F. hacher to hash.] To chop into small pieces; to mince and mix; as, to hash meat. --Hudibras. Hasheesh
Hash \Hash\ (h[a^]sh), n. [Formerly hachey, hachee, F. hachis, fr. hacher to hash; of German origin; cf. G. hippe sickle, OHG. hippa, for happia. Cf. Hatchet.]

1.That which is hashed or chopped up; meat and vegetables, especially such as have been already cooked, chopped into small pieces and mixed. [1913 Webster]

2.A new mixture of old matter; a second preparation or exhibition. [1913 Webster]

I can not bear elections, and still less the hash of them over again in a first session.— Walpole.[1913 Webster]

3.Hashish. [slang] [PJC]

octothorp \oc"to*thorp\, octothorpe \oc"to*thorpe\, n. [octo- eight + thorp Etymology of thorp uncertain. (ca. 1965). See quote below. Possibly derived from octalthorpe or octotherp (once used by the Bell System?).] A typographic symbol (#) having two vertical lines intersected by two horizontal lines. It is also called the crosshatch, hash, numeral sign and number sign; in the U. S. it is commonly called the pound sign, especially to designate the symbol as used on digital telephone dials, but this can be confusing to Europeans who think of the pound sign as the symbol for the British pound. It is commonly used as a symbol for the word number; as in #36 (meaning: number thirty-six). [PJC]

octothorp Otherwise known as the numeral sign. It has also been used as a symbol for the pound avoirdupois, but this usage is now archaic. In cartography, it is also a symbol for village: eight fields around a central square, and this is the source of its name. Octothorp means eight fields. --Robert Bringhurst (The Elements of Typographic Style (2d edition, 1996), Hartley & Marks, Publishers, Point Roberts, WA; Vancouver, BC, Canada, p. 282) [Joel Neely]

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

hash #

1.<character> hash character.

2.<programming> hash coding.

3.The preferred term for a Perl associative array.

(1995-03-06)

The Devil's Dictionary

HASH, x. There is no definition for this word -- nobody knows what hash is.
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