hush

n : (poetic) tranquil silence; "the still of the night" [syn: {stillness},

{still}]

v 1: become quiet or still; fall silent; "hush my babay!"

2: cause to be quiet or not talk; "This threat ought to shut

them up!" [syn: {silence}, {quieten}, {still}, {shut up},

{hush up}]

3: become quiet or quieter; "The audience fell silent when the

speaker entered" [syn: {quiet}, {quieten}, {quiesce}, {quiet

down}, {pipe down}]

4: wash by removing particles; in mining; "Wash ores"

5: run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the

underlying strata and valuable minerals; in mining

hash

1. "#", {ASCII} code 35.

Common names: number sign; pound; pound sign; hash; sharp;

{crunch}; hex; {INTERCAL}: mesh. Rare: grid; crosshatch;

octothorpe; flash; {ITU-T}: square, pig-pen; tictactoe;

scratchmark; thud; thump; {splat}.

The pronunciation of "#" as "pound" is common in the US but a

bad idea; {Commonwealth Hackish} has its own, rather more

apposite use of "pound sign" (confusingly, on British

keyboards the pound graphic happens to replace "#"; thus

Britishers sometimes call "#" on a US-ASCII keyboard "pound",

compounding the American error). The US usage derives from an

old-fashioned commercial practice of using a "#" suffix to tag

pound weights on bills of lading. The character is usually

pronounced "hash" outside the US

2. {hash coding}.

3. The preferred term for a {Perl} {associative array}.

(1995-03-06)