rehash

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Pronunciation

• (verb) IPA: /ɹiːˈhæʃ/
• (noun) IPA: /ˈɹiːˌhæʃ/

Verb

rehash (rehashes, present participle rehashing; past and past participle rehashed)

1. (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.

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

   Let's not rehash what we did last night.

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

Translations

• Portuguese: refazer
• Russian: переформулировать
• Spanish: rehacer, refundir (literary work), refreír

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

• German: Aufbereitung
• Russian: переформулировка
• Spanish: refrito ((literary) work)

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