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hashed

hashed is the simple past and past participle of hash.

Meaning of hash

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.
    • 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...1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
  2. To make a quick, rough version.
    • We need to quickly hash up some plans.
  3. (transitive) To transform according to a hash function.
    • Recall that our goal with the distributed Merkle tree (DMT) is to hash together all the messages sent during the execution of the distributed algorithm, in such a way that a node can produce openings for its own sent messages.2023 November 26, Eden Aldema Tshuva, Elette Boyle, Ran Cohen, Tal Moran, Rotem Oshman, “Locally Verifiable Distributed SNARGs”, in Guy Rothblum, Hoeteck Wee, editors, Theory of Cryptography 21st...
  4. (colloquial, transitive) To make a mess of (something); to ruin.
    • [Julie Jacquette]: "All right, you've hashed it. I knew damn well you should have stayed in the other room. Now he knows he'll have to kill you too."1966, Rex Stout, Death of a Doxy

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What is hashed the simple past and past participle of?
Hashed is the simple past and past participle of hash.

Words near hashed in the dictionary

  1. hashbrownies
  2. hashbrowns
  3. Hashbury
  4. hashcode
  5. hashcodes
  6. hashed
  7. hashed brown
  8. hashed browns
  9. hashed out
  10. hashed over
  11. hashed up

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