English Dictionary

hash

/ˈhæʃ/

noun

Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together. / A confused mess. / (typography) The # symbol (octothorpe, pound). / (computing) The result generated by a hash function.

I love to sprinkle hash on my breakfast potatoes.

意味（1）

Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together.

I had for them, after oysters, at first course, a hash of rabbits, a lamb, and a rare chine of beef.

意味（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.

意味（3）

(typography) The # symbol (octothorpe, pound).

意味（4）

(computing) The result generated by a hash function.

意味（5）

(computing, cryptocurrencies) 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.

意味（6）

A new mixture of old material; a second preparation or exhibition; a rehashing.

I cannot bear elections, and still less the hash of them over again in a first session.

意味（7）

A hash run.

Most hashes are planned as family affairs, with a shorter puppy trail laid for the children.

意味（8）

(Scotland) A stupid fellow.