different between hash vs mets

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): /m?ts/
• Homophone: Mets

Noun

mets pl (plural only)

1. (medicine, colloquial) Clipping of metastases.

Anagrams

• EMTs, STEM, Smet, Stem, TEMs, stem

Catalan

Verb

mets

1. second-person singular present indicative form of metre

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *meccä.

Noun

mets (genitive metsa, partitive metsa)

1. forest

Declension

French

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin missum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?/

Noun

mets m (plural mets)

1. (cooking) dish

Synonyms

• plat

Verb

mets

1. inflection of mettre:
   1. first/second-person singular indicative present
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “mets” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Icelandic

Noun

mets

1. indefinite genitive singular of met