different between hash vs fumble

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)

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?mb?l/

• Rhymes: -?mb?l

Etymology 1

Late Middle English, from Low German fommeln or Dutch fommelen.

Or, perhaps from a Scandinavian/North Germanic source; compare Old Norse fálma, Swedish fumla, Danish fumle, German fummeln.

The ultimate origin for either could perhaps be imitative of fumbling. Or, from Proto-Indo-European *pal- (“to shake, swing”), see also Latin palpo (“I pat, touch softly”), and possibly Proto-West Germanic *f?lijan (“to feel”).

Verb

fumble (third-person singular simple present fumbles, present participle fumbling, simple past and past participle fumbled)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To handle nervously or awkwardly.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To grope awkwardly in trying to find something
   • 1742, Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews

     Adams now began to fumble in his pockets.}}

3. (intransitive) To blunder uncertainly.

4. To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly.
5. (transitive, intransitive, sports) To drop a ball or a baton etc. by accident.
6. To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.

Synonyms

• (grope awkwardly): grubble, poke; see also Thesaurus:feel around

Translations

Noun

fumble (plural fumbles)

1. (sports, American football, Canadian football) A ball etc. that has been dropped by accident.

Translations

Etymology 2

Blend of fool +? crumble.

Noun

fumble (plural fumbles)

1. (Britain) A dessert similar to a cross between a fool and a crumble.

Further reading

• fumble on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References