What's the difference between hash and pound?

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.

Pound


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat.
  • (v. t.) To comminute and pulverize by beating; to bruise or break into fine particles with a pestle or other heavy instrument; as, to pound spice or salt.
  • (v. i.) To strike heavy blows; to beat.
  • (v. i.) To make a jarring noise, as in running; as, the engine pounds.
  • (n.) An inclosure, maintained by public authority, in which cattle or other animals are confined when taken in trespassing, or when going at large in violation of law; a pinfold.
  • (n.) A level stretch in a canal between locks.
  • (n.) A kind of net, having a large inclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
  • (v. t.) To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
  • (pl. ) of Pound
  • (n.) A certain specified weight; especially, a legal standard consisting of an established number of ounces.
  • (n.) A British denomination of money of account, equivalent to twenty shillings sterling, and equal in value to about $4.86. There is no coin known by this name, but the gold sovereign is of the same value.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Stringer, a Vietnam war veteran who was knighted in 1999, is already inside the corporation, if only for a few months, after he was appointed as one of its non-executive directors to toughen up the BBC's governance following a string of scandals, from the Jimmy Savile abuse to multimillion-pound executive payoffs.
  • (2) Any MP who claims this is not statutory regulation is a liar, and should be forced to retract and apologise, or face a million pound fine.
  • (3) It would cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds in transaction costs, it would blow a massive hole in their balance of payments, it would leave them having to pick up the entirety of UK debt.
  • (4) "It will mean root-and-branch change for our banks if we are to deliver real change for Britain, if we are to rebuild our economy so it works for working people, and if we are to restore trust in a sector of our economy worth billions of pounds and hundreds of thousands of jobs to our country."
  • (5) The cull in 2013 required a policing effort costing millions of pounds and pulling in officers from many different forces.
  • (6) Each malnourished child was given 1 pound of dried skimmed milk (DSM) per week.
  • (7) The pound was also down more than 1% against the US dollar to $1.2835, not far off a 31-year low hit in the wake of June’s shock referendum result.
  • (8) I paid 200,000 Syrian pounds (£695) to leave Syria.
  • (9) "A pound spent in Croydon is of far more value to the country than a pound spent in Strathclyde," Johnson told the Huffington Post in an extraordinary interview this weekend.
  • (10) We continue to offer customers a great range of beer, lager and cider.” Heineken’s bid to raise prices for its products in supermarkets comes just a few months after it put 6p on a pint in pubs , a decision it blamed on the weak pound.
  • (11) Sir Ken Morrison, supermarkets Jersey trusts protect the billion-pound wealth of the 83-year-old Bradford-born Morrisons supermarket founder and a large number of his family members.
  • (12) "If we are going to turn our economy around, protect our NHS and build a stronger country, we will have to be laser-focused on how we spend every pound," he will say.
  • (13) From Tuesday, the Neckarsulm-based grocer will be the official supplier of water, fish, fruit and vegetables for Roy Hodgson’s boys under a multimillion-pound three-year deal with the Football Association.
  • (14) Hunt’s comments were, in many senses, a restatement of traditional, economically liberal ideas on relationships between doing wage work and poverty relief, mirroring, for example, arguments of the 1834 poor law commissioners, which suggested wage supplements diminished the skills, honesty and diligence of the labourer, and the more recent claim of Iain Duncan Smith’s Centre for Social Justice that the earned pound was “superior” to that received in benefits.
  • (15) Detailed analysis of the resources used revealed that the mean cost to the NHS of each case of NSAP was 807 pounds, the bulk of which was attributable to the hospital stay.
  • (16) Current obstetric recommendations call for 22-27 pound weight gain.
  • (17) She also complained of occasional night sweats, a 6-pound weight loss, vaginal discharge, and a low-grade fever for 6 weeks prior to admission.
  • (18) Correcting all this would cost hundreds of millions of pounds, a sum which councils and other housing providers simply cannot afford, they say.
  • (19) A total weight gain of 22 to 26 pounds is recommended, with the pattern of weight gain being more important than the total amount.
  • (20) Labour is exploring radical plans to give local councils and new regional bodies a central role in shaping the way billions of pounds of welfare funding is spent in order to bring down the benefits bill.