Washed vs Hashed - What's the difference?
washed | hashed |
(wash)
To clean with water.
To move or erode by the force of water in motion.
(mining) To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
To clean oneself with water.
To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
* Milton
* Longfellow
To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
(figuratively) To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
* 2012 , (The Economist), Oct 13th 2012 issue,
To bear without injury the operation of being washed.
To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; said of road, a beach, etc.
To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
To overlay with a thin coat of metal.
The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
A liquid used for washing.
The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
(arts) A smooth and translucent .
The sound of breaking of the seas, e.g., on the shore.
The wake of a moving ship.
The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
* Mortimer
A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.
* Shakespeare
A shallow body of water.
In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.
* 1997 , Stanley Desmond Smith, et al. Physiological Ecology of North American Desert Plants, Nature
* 1999 , Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert
* 2005 , Le Hayes, Pilgrims in the Desert: The Early History of the East Mojave Desert
An situation in which losses and gains or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent; a situation in which there is no net change.
* 2003 , David Brenner, I Think There's a Terrorist in My Soup , page 100:
Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.
In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
A thin coat of metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
(nautical) The blade of an oar.
The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
(hash)
Food]], especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together.
* 1633 , Samuel Pepys, Diary
A confused mess.
* 1847 , Charlotte Yonge, Scenes and Characters
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
A hash run; a sort of paperchase organised by the (Hash House Harriers).
* 1987 , Susan Scott-Stevens, Foreign Consultants and Counterparts (page 81)
Hashed, chopped into small pieces
* 1855 , William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes
To chop into small pieces, to make into a hash.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
To make a quick, rough version
(computing) To transform according to a hash function.
Hashish, a drug derived from the cannabis plant.
As verbs the difference between washed and hashed
is that washed is (wash) while hashed is (hash).washed
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(head)Anagrams
*wash
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Verb
- Heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.
- Waves wash the shore.
- fresh-blown roses washed with dew
- [the landscape] washed with a cold, grey mist
The Jordan and its king: As beleaguered as ever
- The king is running out of ideas as well as cash. His favourite shock-absorbing tactic—to blame his governments and sack his prime ministers—hardly washes .
- steel washed with silver
Usage notes
In older works and possibly still in some dialects, wesh'' and ''woosh'' may be found as past tense forms. ''Washen may be found as a past participle.Derived terms
* dishwasher * jetwash * wash away * wash down * washed up / all washed up * washer * wash off * wash one's hands of * wash out * wash over * wash upNoun
(washes)- I'm going to have a quick wash before coming to bed.
- My jacket needs a wash .
- There's a lot in that wash : maybe you should split it into two piles.
- I could hear the wash of the wave.
- The ship left a big wash
- Sail away from the wash to avoid rocking the boat.
- mouth wash
- hand wash
- The wash of pastures, fields, commons, and roads, where rain water hath a long time settled.
- These Lincoln washes have devoured them.
- In some desert-wash systems (which have been termed “xero-riparian”)
- ... though the wash may carry surface water for only a few hours a year.
- Rock Spring Wash' continues a short distance then joins Watson '''Wash'''. Water from Rock Spring comes out of the boulder strewn ' wash and disappears into the sand
- I knew that for every vote I cast for, say, the Republicans, some kid at a polling place nearby was casting his votes for the Democrats, so it was probably a wash or close to it.
- (Shakespeare)
Derived terms
* backwash * come out in the wash * car wash * mouthwash * wash and brushup * wash sale * washout * whitewashAnagrams
* *See also
* WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) 1000 English basic wordshashed
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(head)hash
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(es)- I had for them, after oysters, at first course, a hash of rabbits, a lamb, and a rare chine of beef.
- 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.
- I cannot bear elections, and still less the hash of them over again in a first session.
- Most hashes are planned as family affairs, with a shorter "puppy" trail laid for the children.
Synonyms
* (result generated by hash function) checksumDerived terms
* * * * * *Adjective
(en adjective)- 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 * hashtagVerb
(es)- 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.
- We need to quickly hash up some plans.