hashing

verb

Definition of hashingnext
present participle of hash
1
as in chopping
to cut into small pieces he hashed some roast beef, put it in a pie shell, and topped it with a layer of mashed potatoes

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2
as in shuffling
to undo the proper order or arrangement of the bookkeeper had so hashed the figures it took weeks to straighten out the accounts

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hashing
  1. chopping
  2. shuffling
  3. disrupting
  4. scrambling
Verb
  • Making chemicals from trees is doable by traditional means — chopping the wood into smaller pieces and then using chemicals and enzymes to pretreat it for further processing.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Advertisement The image of Nixon strolling on the sand or Reagan chopping wood carried the symbolism that California’s political moment had arrived.
    Shelby Grad, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
Definition of chopping
Verb
  • Honorable Mentions My Top Five stays the same as my recent mid-September update, but there was shuffling from #6-10 down the home stretch.
    Tony Blengino, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Meanwhile, storm survivors were still scrounging for food and clean water and shuffling from shelter to shelter three days after Helene first made landfall in Florida.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 1 Oct. 2024
Definition of shuffling
Verb
  • Both the Russian and Ukrainian militaries have successfully achieved standoff through the use of artillery firepower coupled with drone strikes, effectively disrupting their adversary’s offensive operations.
    Vikram Mittal, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The 50,000 members of the union working at ports from Maine to Texas have been on strike since early Tuesday morning, halting the flow of the majority of containerized imports into the United States, along with many of the exports, disrupting the sales of American businesses overseas.
    Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of disrupting
Verb
  • Le Roux is among 21 unaccounted for residents in the county search and rescue crews are scrambling to locate.
    Ashley R. Williams, CNN, 4 Oct. 2024
  • For Starbucks, which buys 3% of the world’s coffee, the shortages can mean scrambling to find Arabica beans — and higher prices for its customers.
    Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of scrambling
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