HASH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hash mean? 

• HASH (noun)
  The noun HASH has 2 senses:

1. chopped meat mixed with potatoes and browned

2. purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen

  Familiarity information: HASH used as a noun is rare.

• HASH (verb)
  The verb HASH has 1 sense:

1. chop up

  Familiarity information: HASH used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HASH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Chopped meat mixed with potatoes and browned

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("hash" is a kind of...):

dish (a particular item of prepared food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hash"):

corned beef hash (hash made with corned beef)

Derivation:

hash (chop up)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

haschisch; hash; hasheesh; hashish

Hypernyms ("hash" is a kind of...):

soft drug (a drug of abuse that is considered relatively mild and not likely to cause addiction)

Holonyms ("hash" is a part of...):

Cannabis indica; Indian hemp (source of e.g. bhang and hashish as well as fiber)

• HASH (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they hash    ... he / she / it hashes   
Past simple: hashed   
Past participle: hashed   
-ing form: hashing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Chop up

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

hash the potatoes

Hypernyms (to "hash" is one way to...):

chop; chop up (cut into pieces)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

The chefs hash the vegetables

Derivation:

hash (chopped meat mixed with potatoes and browned)

 Context examples 

I ain't partic'lar as a rule, and I don't take no blame for settling his hash, but I don't reckon him ornamental now, do you?

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

"No more there is! Will you have hash or fishballs for breakfast?" asked Hannah, who wisely mingled poetry and prose.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“Well, Watson,” said he, “a very pretty hash you have made of it! I rather think you had better come back with me to London by the night express.”

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The hash value is calculated so that it's unlikely, but not impossible, for some other text string to result in the same hash value, but the calculation guarantees that the same string will always produce the same hash value.

(Hash Value, NCI Thesaurus)

She was so little equal to Rebecca's puddings and Rebecca's hashes, brought to table, as they all were, with such accompaniments of half-cleaned plates, and not half-cleaned knives and forks, that she was very often constrained to defer her heartiest meal till she could send her brothers in the evening for biscuits and buns.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Well now, look here, I'll answer these four p'ints; one after another I'll answer 'em. I made a hash o' this cruise, did I?

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

An evening with John over the account books usually produced a temporary lull in the culinary enthusiasm, and a frugal fit would ensue, during which the poor man was put through a course of bread pudding, hash, and warmed-over coffee, which tried his soul, although he bore it with praiseworthy fortitude.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

First, you've made a hash of this cruise—you'll be a bold man to say no to that.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A succulent hash arrived, and Mr. Wolfshiem, forgetting the more sentimental atmosphere of the old Metropole, began to eat with ferocious delicacy.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)