What's the difference between hash and hush?

Hash


Definition:

  • (n.) That which is hashed or chopped up; meat and vegetables, especially such as have been already cooked, chopped into small pieces and mixed.
  • (n.) A new mixture of old matter; a second preparation or exhibition.
  • (n.) To /hop into small pieces; to mince and mix; as, to hash meat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That should be that but he makes an absolute hash of his clearance, slicing it like a butcher with a big piece of meat.
  • (2) Guests can choose from pancakes, eggs Benedict, homemade granola, fresh cinnamon rolls, sausage, “biscuits”, hash browns and scones.
  • (3) Two years as a minister is plenty of time to stack up enemies, or at least a few mutterings that you’ve made a hash of the job.
  • (4) ATP hydrolysis by the DNA-stimulated ATPase activity of the accessory proteins is required for visualization of the hash-mark structures.
  • (5) The odds of both sides coming together to hash out a compromise are slim, especially with birth control emerging as a potential election-year issue.
  • (6) Richard Hurst (@richardhursty) I ate three of Howard's hash cakes and still felt peckish.
  • (7) If the OS can distinguish between individuals then somewhere there must be a map between stored fingerprint hashes and a kind of user identifier, which the OS then maps to a real person.
  • (8) Gauke, in an answer to a parliamentary question tabled by Timms, revealed that in 526,608 cases in November, the hash identifiers in RTI pilots did not match – more than a quarter of all cases.
  • (9) The committee said two examples of contracts that the public deserved to know more about were the scandal of G4S and Serco charging for the electronic tagging of offenders who were in prison or dead, and the "complete hash" that G4S made of supplying security guards for the Olympics.
  • (10) The sensor and crypto unit communicate to see if the hash the sensor has made from scanning a print matches something that it stored before and if so, it says "yes"; else "no".
  • (11) The Uruguayan’s cross missed Juan Mata, Gabriel hashed his clearance, and Rashford was in dreamland once more with a neat finish.
  • (12) They were served an excess portion of hash served on a plate placed on a hidden scale ("VIKTOR"), which was connected to a computer registering the eating process on-line.
  • (13) Recipe supplied by Sasha Martin, globaltableadventure.com Merguez sausage and sweet potato hash This unusual take on hash is quick to rustle up.
  • (14) Well, they were basically asking for more time to hash out a deal without risking the US defaulting on its debt.
  • (15) One of his fans, Lori Maddox, has claimed in interviews that she lost her virginity to him after he gave her champagne and hash when she was about to turn 15.
  • (16) The Clinton press corps convened a meeting earlier this month to discuss their frustrations with access while covering the campaign and to hash out a strategy moving forward.
  • (17) Apart from hash, the employment of narcotics is low in school pupils.
  • (18) In between, he has offered whimsical, slightly vaudevillian comic sagas of sex and drugs in Notting Hill (then a bohemian enclave of high hippydom) with titles such as The Saga of Peaches Melba and the Hash Officer, and Hector the Dope-Sniffing Hound .
  • (19) They are then run through a cryptographic function known as a hash, which produces a short alphanumeric string of numbers.
  • (20) Coasting after early goals from David Cotterill and Hal Robson-Kanu, Wales contrived to let Cyprus back into the game, when Wayne Hennessey made a hash of dealing with Vincent Laban’s free-kick, and ended up playing the final 42 minutes with 10 men.

Hush


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To still; to silence; to calm; to make quiet; to repress the noise or clamor of.
  • (v. t.) To appease; to allay; to calm; to soothe.
  • (v. i.) To become or to keep still or quiet; to become silent; -- esp. used in the imperative, as an exclamation; be still; be silent or quiet; make no noise.
  • (n.) Stillness; silence; quiet.
  • (a.) Silent; quiet.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The exam hall crackles with a hushed excitement as the papers for our last ever exam are taken in.
  • (2) Those whose ears catch the idle chatter from the more indiscreet members of Ed’s office have let drop that the leader was reportedly “furious” with Andy for raising not-so-oblique criticisms of the ‘hush now’ approach to party policy, and he could face the chop.
  • (3) But Britain’s hushed response in a string of cases showed that despite the lip service to human rights they were “not one of our top priorities … the prosperity agenda is further up the list”, as a top official conceded of foreign policy in general.
  • (4) It’s kind of kept under the radar, hushed, so it needs to be talked about.” People needed to know, she added, that abortion restrictions had real victims.
  • (5) I suppose people do need to talk about the Troubles, but they don’t need to do it in such a hushed manner.
  • (6) Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar's name is mentioned in hushed tones among most Yemenis, and he rarely appears in public.
  • (7) It's one thing for critics and curators to single out the next rising star from China, expecting hushed reverence from the general public, but quite another for us to genuinely engage with the art of China past and present.
  • (8) At 11.35am, within a packed and hushed court 1, Redknapp and his fellow defendant, the former Portsmouth football club owner Milan Mandaric, hugged in the glass-walled dock after the female jury foreman responded with quiet answers of "not guilty" to each count.
  • (9) But it is also the incantatory darkness of dreams and visions, death and memory, as an observing consciousness creeps into the "blinded bedrooms" of the town's inhabitants, hushing and inviting us on: "Come now, drift up the dark, come up the drifting sea-dark street now in the dark night seesawing like the sea ... " Blind Captain Cat is dreaming of long-ago sea voyages and long-dead lovers; twice-widowed Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard of her henpecked husbands; Organ Morgan of musical extravaganzas; Polly Garter of babies; Mary Ann Sailors of the Garden of Eden; Dai Bread of "Turkish girls.
  • (10) But he was carried off and a kind of hush descended."
  • (11) Back at the hotel for the photo shoot, a great hush falls over the suite.
  • (12) A hush descends whenever we hear the voice of Lorraine, whose resentment towards her mother remains palpable.
  • (13) In a front-page comment piece, Aluf Benn, the editor-in-chief of Haaretz, wrote: "Instead of hushing up the blunder, [gag orders] merely shine a spotlight on it.
  • (14) After a tense first half, the second act, which includes the depiction of Klinghoffer’s murder, was quieter, with a sole exclamation of “this is shit!” by a woman in the stalls, who was hushed by the rest of the audience.
  • (15) The compound that oversaw industry during the boom years now has a fading, almost unreadable sign and a deathly hush.
  • (16) Does a lullaby have to be traditional, or do you find yourself making it up as you go, singing original lyrics to the tune of Hush Little Baby ?
  • (17) With echoes of the Catholic priest scandal, for decades rabbis have hushed up child sex crimes and fomented a culture in which victims are further victimised and abusers protected.
  • (18) Rather than a bribe, Ecclestone's defence team claims the $44m payments were hush money.
  • (19) He is hush-hush about how the portraits will turn out, partly because he hasn’t finished them and partly because he wants to save the big reveal for TV and an accompanying exhibition .
  • (20) From 12.02pm, they hushed for four and a half minutes – one for each hour Brown was left lying uncovered on Canfield Drive in the midday heat after being shot, a situation which enraged his friends and family.