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Rehash

Definitions: Rehash

Rehash

Noun

1. Old material that is slightly reworked and used again; "merely a dull rehash of his first novel".

Verb

1. Present or use over, with no or few changes.

2. Go back over; "retrograde arguments".

3. Go over once again.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "rehash" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references)

 

Synonyms: Rehash

Synonyms: hash over (v), retrograde (v). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Rehash

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Lizzie Borden Hash & Rehash (1995)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Rehash

"Rehash" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 76.92% of the time. "Rehash" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)76.92%10111,207
Lexical Verb (infinitive)23.08%3202,518
                    Total100.00%13N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Rehash

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

blind item rehash

47

rehash

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Rehash

Language Translations for "rehash"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

ripunoj (revise, rewrite), ripunim (readjustment, revise), përpunoj (cast, design, develop, elaborate, evolve, mill, process, recondition, refine, treat, work out), përpunim (development, elaboration, formation, manipulation, manufacture, operation, processing, recovery, refinement, treatment). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏غير (beyond, budge, but, change, commute, fashion, masquerade, metamorphose, mis, modify, modulate, non, overrun, renew, reverse, revise, shape, shift, switch, switch over, than, transfer, transpose, turn, un-), ‏أعاد التنظيم (remodel, reorder, revamp). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

разисквам отново, преработка (adaptation, rechauffe), преработване (recast, recension). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

"作. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

چیزتکراری , تکرارمکررات , تعمیرکردن (Imp, Mend, Patch, Refashion, Refit, Remodel, Renovate, Repair, Restore, Tinker, Vamp), بحث های قدیمی مطرح کردن ب صورت جدیدی . (various references)

   

French

  

remanier (recast, remake up, remodel, reshuffle, revise, rewrite), réarranger (readjust, rearrange, redo). (various references)

   

German

  

neufassung (new version, revised version, update), aufguss (brew, infusion), aufbereiten (adapt, dress, edit, editing, grab, prepare, process, purify). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σερβίρω πάλι, αναμάσημα (rumination), αναμασώ (chew over, regurgitate, ruminate). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

felmelegített mese. (various references)

   

Italian

  

rimaneggiare (recast, remake up, remodel, reshape, reshuffle, rewrite), rimaneggiamento (disturbance, overrunning, reimposition, remaking-up). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

二番煎じ . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

にば"せ"じ. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ehashray

   

Portuguese

  

refazer (realign, rebuild, recast, reconstruct, remake, remodel, repeat), novo arranjo (remaking), nova versão, coisa refeita (hash). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

переделывать (adapt, alter, customize, makeover, readjust, recast, recondition, redo, re-do, re-done, remade, remake, remodel, revamp, rework, turn, unmake), переделка на новый лад. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

preraditi (adapt, process, recycle, refine, revise, rewrite), prerada starog materijala, prežvakati, ponoviti (play back, reduplicate, reiterate, repeat, replicate, restate, say over, work over). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

refrito. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

uppkok (warming up), stuva om, omstuvning. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ปรับปรุงใหม่ (revamp, rework). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yeniden ele almak, yeniden ele alma, temcit pilavı gibi ısıtıp ısıtıp ortaya koymak, tekrarlama (encore, iteration, quotation, recap, recapitulation, recrudescence, rehearsal, reiteration, repeat, repetition, return), tekrar ısıtmak, aynen sunma, aynen çıkarmak, ısıtıp yeniden sunma. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

переробка на новий лад, переробляти (adapt, alter, change, do again, furbish up, make over, readjust, recast, re-do, remake, remodel, revise, rework, transverse, turn over, work over), перефразування, перефразовувати. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự l m lại th nh mới. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Rehash

Derivations

Words beginning with "rehash": rehashed, rehashes, rehashing. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Rehash" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: jehoash, rahah, rahsaan, rahsh, reash, rechase, refah, Rekha, Rheidh, rihanssu, ruhuhu. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Rehash"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "rehash" (pronounced rēha"sh)
3-h a" shhash.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Rehash

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-h-h-r-s"

-1 letter: hares, harsh, hears, rheas, share, shear.

-2 letters: ares, arse, ears, eras, haes, hahs, hare, hash, hear, hehs, hers, rase, rash, resh, rhea, sear, sera, shah, shea.

-3 letters: are, ars, ash, ear, era, ers, hae, hah, has, heh, her, hes, rah, ras, res, sae, sea, ser, sha, she, shh.

-4 letters: ae, ah, ar, as, eh.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-h-h-r-s"
 

+1 letter: harshen, harsher, hearths, rhaphes.

 

+2 letters: hachures, harshens, harshest, hatchers, heathers, rehashed, rehashes, sheather, thrashed, thrasher, thrashes.

 

+3 letters: ethnarchs, hardheads, harshened, harshness, heptarchs, hierarchs, horsehair, huaraches, rehashing, rhachides, rhachises, sheathers, thatchers, thrashers.

 

+4 letters: archerfish, dishwasher, earthshine, harshening, hatcheries, heartaches, heresiarch, hexachords, hexarchies, horsehairs, horselaugh, shanghaier, showerhead, thearchies.

 

+5 letters: archduchess, archduchies, bathysphere, bushwhacker, catchphrase, chargehands, cherishable, diphtherias, dishwashers, earthlights, earthshaker, earthshines, fatherhoods, haberdasher, hairbrushes, hammerheads, harshnesses, headhunters, hearthstone, heartthrobs, hectographs, heliographs, hemorrhages, heptachlors, heptarchies, heresiarchs, hexahedrons, hierarchies, hierophants, highlanders, horselaughs, horseradish, housefather, hydrophanes, searchlight, shanghaiers, shareholder, shortchange, shorthaired, shorthanded, showerheads, waterthrush, wheelchairs, whitewasher.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Rehash


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 68 61 73 68

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-.    .    ....    .-    ...    ....

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100101 01101000 01100001 01110011 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#104 &#97 &#115 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 0068 0061 0073 0068

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

527174678574

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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