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hash | we |

As a noun hash

is food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together.

As an adjective hash

is hashed, chopped into small pieces.

As a verb hash

is to chop into small pieces, to make into a hash.

As a pronoun we is

the speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person (not the person being addressed). This is the exclusive we.

As a determiner we is

the speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person.

hash

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(es)
  • Food]], especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together.
  • * 1633 , Samuel Pepys, Diary
    • I had for them, after oysters, at first course, a hash of rabbits, a lamb, and a rare chine of beef.
  • A confused mess.
  • * 1847 , Charlotte Yonge, Scenes and Characters
    • 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 symbol (octothorpe, pound).
  • (computing) The result generated by a hash function.
  • A new mixture of old material; a second preparation or exhibition; a rehashing.
  • * Walpole
    • I cannot bear elections, and still less the hash of them over again in a first session.
  • A hash run; a sort of paperchase organised by the (Hash House Harriers).
  • * 1987 , Susan Scott-Stevens, Foreign Consultants and Counterparts (page 81)
    • Most hashes are planned as family affairs, with a shorter "puppy" trail laid for the children.
    Synonyms
    * (result generated by hash function) checksum
    Derived terms
    * * * * * *

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Hashed, chopped into small pieces
  • * 1855 , William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes
    • The Colonel, himself, was great at making hash mutton, hot-pot, curry, and pillau.
    Derived terms
    * hash browns * hash function * hashhouse * hash table * hash map * hashing * hash coding * hash key * hash value * hashtag

    Verb

    (es)
  • To chop into small pieces, to make into a hash.
  • * 1749 , Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
    • 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.
  • To make a quick, rough version
    • We need to quickly hash up some plans.
  • (computing) To transform according to a hash function.
    • Derived terms
    * hash out * rehash

    Etymology 2

    Clipped form of hashish .

    Noun

    (-)
  • Hashish, a drug derived from the cannabis plant.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    we

    English

    Pronoun

  • (personal) The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person (not the person being addressed).
  • (personal) The speaker(s)/writer(s) and the person(s) being addressed.
  • (personal) The speaker/writer alone.
  • (personal)
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Stephen P. Lownie], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/david-m-pelz David M. Pelz
    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Stents to Prevent Stroke , passage=As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels.}}

    Determiner

    (en determiner)
  • The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person.
    • We Canadians like to think of ourselves as different.

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    Anagrams

    * ew 100 English basic words 1000 English basic words English first person pronouns English personal pronouns English plural pronouns English terms with homophones English two-letter words ----