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In lang=en terms the difference between hash and breakfast

is that hash is to chop into small pieces, to make into a hash while breakfast is to serve breakfast to.

As nouns the difference between hash and breakfast

is that hash is food]], especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together or hash can be hashish, a drug derived from the cannabis plant while breakfast is the first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.

As verbs the difference between hash and breakfast

is that hash is to chop into small pieces, to make into a hash while breakfast is to eat the morning meal.

As an adjective hash

is hashed, chopped into small pieces.

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

    * ----

    breakfast

    English

    (wikipedia breakfast) , bacon, fried mushrooms and tomatoes, scrambled eggs and toast at a restaurant in (Singapore). These foods are eaten for breakfast in many countries.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.
    • You should put more protein in her breakfast so she will grow.
  • * 1591 , Shakespeare, Henry VI, part 2 , act 1:
    • a sorry breakfast for my lord protector
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=
    • , title=The Cuckoo in the Nest , chapter=1 citation , passage=Peter, after the manner of man at the breakfast table, had allowed half his kedgeree to get cold and was sniggering over a letter. Sophia looked at him sharply. The only letter she had received was from her mother. Sophia's mother was not a humourist.}}
  • (by extension) A meal consisting of food normally eaten in the morning, which may typically include eggs, sausages, toast, bacon, etc.
    • We serve breakfast all day.
  • A meal after fasting, or food in general.
  • * Dryden
    • The wolves will get a breakfast by my death.

    Derived terms

    * breakfast of champions * champagne breakfast * continental breakfast * deskfast * English breakfast * wedding breakfast

    See also

    * brunch * jentacular

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To eat the morning meal.
  • * He breakfasted on pizza and Coke.
  • * Prior
    • First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast .
  • To serve breakfast to.
  • *

    • Synonyms

    * break one's fast

    Anagrams

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