different between blend vs hash

English

Etymology

From Middle English blenden, either from Old English blandan, blondan, ?eblandan, ?eblendan or from Old Norse blanda (“to blend, mix”) (which was originally a strong verb with the present-tense stem blend; compare blendingr (“a blending, a mixture; a half-breed”)), whence also Danish blande, or from a blend of the Old English and Old Norse terms; both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *blandan? (“to blend; mix; combine”). Compare Middle Dutch blanden (“to mix”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (blandan), Old Church Slavonic ?????? (blesti, “to go astray”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: bl?nd, IPA^(key): /bl?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd
• Homophone: blende

Noun

blend (plural blends)

1. A mixture of two or more things.

   Their music has been described as a blend of jazz and heavy metal.

   Our department has a good blend of experienced workers and young promise.

2. (linguistics) A word formed by combining two other words; a grammatical contamination, portmanteau word.

   The word brunch is a blend of the words breakfast and lunch.

Synonyms

• (mixture): combination, mix, mixture
• (in linguistics): frankenword, portmanteau, portmanteau word

Translations

Verb

blend (third-person singular simple present blends, present participle blending, simple past and past participle blended or (poetic) blent)

1. (transitive) To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other.

2. (intransitive) To be mingled or mixed.

   • There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality.

   • 1817, John Keats, Happy is England!

     To feel no other breezes than are blown / Through its tall woods with high romances blent
3. (obsolete) To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:blend.

Synonyms

• (to mix; to unite intimately): See also Thesaurus:homogenize, Thesaurus:mix, and Thesaurus:coalesce

Derived terms

• blender
• blended
• blend in
• blendingly

Translations

References

Anagrams

• L-bend

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• blenk (Ripuarian; now chiefly western dialects)
• blond, blönd (Eifel)

Etymology

From Old High German blind, northern variant of blint.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blent/

Adjective

blend (masculine blenne or blende, feminine blenn or blend, comparative blenner or blender, superlative et blendste)

1. (Moselle Franconian, some dialects of Ripuarian) blind; unable to see

Usage notes

• The inflected forms with -nn- are used in those dialects in which blend is the inherited form (Moselle Franconian, southern Ripuarian). The forms with -nd- are used in Ripuarian to the extent to which inherited blenk has been replaced with blend.

Dutch

Verb

blend

1. first-person singular present indicative of blenden
2. imperative of blenden

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: h?sh, IPA^(key): /?hæ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Etymology 1

From French hacher (“to chop”), from Old French hache (“axe”).

Noun

hash (plural hashes)

1. Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together.
2. A confused mess.
4. (typography) The # symbol (octothorpe, pound).

   Synonyms: hash mark, hash sign, hashtag, number sign, octothorn, octothorpe, pound, pound sign, sharp sign, square

5. (computing) The result generated by a hash function.

   Synonym: checksum

6. (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.
7. A new mixture of old material; a second preparation or exhibition; a rehashing.
   • October 28, 1752, Horace Walpole, letter to Sir Horace Mann

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

8. A hash run.
   • 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.

9. (Scotland) A stupid fellow.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

hash (third-person singular simple present hashes, present participle hashing, simple past and past participle hashed)

1. (transitive) To chop into small pieces, to make into a hash.
2. To make a quick, rough version

   We need to quickly hash up some plans.

3. (computing, transitive) To transform according to a hash function.

Derived terms

• hash out
• rehash

Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping of hashish.

Noun

hash (uncountable)

1. (informal) Hashish, a drug derived from the cannabis plant.

Translations

References

• hash at OneLook Dictionary Search
• hash in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Shah, ahhs, hahs, shah, sh?h

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English hash [1966], short for hashish, from Arabic ??????? (?aš?š, “hay, dried herb”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hasj/, [ha?]

Noun

hash c (singular definite hashen, not used in plural form)

1. hash, hashish Not used anymore to denote dried herbs.
2. hash a drug derived from the cannabis plant.

Derived terms

• hashryger

Related terms

Portuguese

Noun

hash m (plural hashes)

1. (computing) hash (key generated by a hash function)