hash
verbEtymology 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”).
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To chop into small pieces, to make into a hash.
- In like manner, we shall represent human nature at first to the keen appetite of our reader, in that more plain and simple manner in which it is found in the country, and shall hereafter hash and ragoo it with all the high French and Italian seasoning of affectation and vice which courts and cities afford.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
- 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[.]1942 July 1, The Newcastle and Maitland Catholic Sentinel, Newcastle, NSW, page 224, column 2:
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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.1949, Prevent World War III., number 30, page 12:
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- 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.2004, Jonathan Rigby, English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema, Reynolds & Hearn, →ISBN, page 279:
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences 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.2023 November 26, Eden Aldema Tshuva, Elette Boyle, Ran Cohen, Tal Moran, Rotem Oshman, “Locally Verifiable Distributed SNARGs”, in Guy Rothblum, Hoeteck Wee, editors, Theory of Cryptography 21st International Conference, TCC 2023, Taipei, Taiwan, November 29 – December 2, 2023, Proceedings, Part I · Part 1, Springer Nature Switzerland, →ISBN, page 85:
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Colloquial 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."1966, Rex Stout, Death of a Doxy:
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Communications, Electrical engineering, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Telecommunications Abbreviation, Ellipsis Ellipsis of hash noise.