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Medley vs Hash - What's the difference?

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Medley is a related term of hash.


As nouns the difference between medley and hash

is that medley is while hash is food]], especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together or hash can be hashish, a drug derived from the cannabis plant.

As verbs the difference between medley and hash

is that medley is (music) to combine, to form a medley while hash is to chop into small pieces, to make into a hash.

As an adjective hash is

hashed, chopped into small pieces.

medley

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • *:
  • *:Thenne came the kyng of Irland and the kynge of the stryete marches to rescowe syre Tristram and sire Palomydes / There beganne a grete medle / & many knyghtes were smyten doune on bothe partyes / and alweyes sir launcelot spared sir Tristram / and he spared hym
  • :(Holland)
  • A collection or mixture of miscellaneous things.
  • :a fruit medley
  • *Addison
  • *:this medley of philosophy and war
  • *W. Walsh
  • *:Love is a medley of endearments, jars, / Suspicions, reconcilements, wars.
  • (music) A collection of related songs played or mixed together as a single piece.
  • :They played a medley of favorite folk songs as an encore.
  • (swimming) A competitive swimming event that combines the four strokes of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle.
  • A cloth of mixed colours.
  • :(Fuller)

    • Related terms

    * meddle * melee

    Synonyms

    * mashup

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (music) To combine, to form a medley.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    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
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    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

    * ----