rehash

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ hash.

Pronunciation

• (verb) IPA^(key): /ɹiːˈhæʃ/

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• (noun) IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːˌhæʃ/

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• Rhymes: -æʃ

Verb

rehash (third-person singular simple present rehashes, present participle rehashing, simple past and past participle rehashed)

1. (transitive) To hash (chop food into small pieces) again.
   • 1942 July 1, The Newcastle and Maitland Catholic Sentinel, Newcastle, NSW, page 224, column 2:

     I never did care for Sunday joint that was served up cold on Monday, hashed on Tuesday, rissoled on Wednesday, and re-hashed on Thursday[.]

2. (transitive) To repeat with minor variation.

   Today's parliamentary session only rehashed last week's arguments.

   The CEO of the company only rehashed a speech for the news conference.

   The general rehashed plans for the war.

3. (transitive) To analyze a prior contentious or embarrassing event.

   Let's not rehash what we did last night.

4. (transitive, computing) To recompute the structure of a hash table, taking into account any newly added items.

Translations

to rework old material, redo some work, with some variations

• Bulgarian: преработвам (bg) (prerabotvam)
• French: ressasser (fr)
• German: mehr oder minder wiederholen, wiederaufwärmen, verwursten (de)
• Polish: odgrzewać (pl)
• Portuguese: refazer (pt)
• Russian: переформулировать (ru) (pereformulirovatʹ)
• Spanish: rehacer (es), refundir (es) (literary work), refreír (es)

Noun

rehash (plural rehashes)

1. Something reworked, or made up from old materials.

   He wrote a bad rehash of an earlier essay.

2. (computing) A recomputation of the structure of a hash table, taking into account any newly added items.

Translations

something reworked, or made up from old materials

• Bulgarian: преработка (bg) f (prerabotka)
• German: Aufbereitung (de) f
• Irish: athabláil f
• Russian: переформулировка (ru) (pereformulirovka)
• Spanish: refrito (es) m (literary work)

Anagrams

• harshe, hasher, Hrehas