单词 | hash mark |
释义 | hash markn. Chiefly North American. 1. U.S. Military (originally Navy). A stripe displayed on the sleeve of a uniform, indicating that an enlisted person has completed a certain number of years of service; = service stripe n. at service n.1 Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > insignia > [noun] > chevron or stripe chevron1813 stripe1827 service stripe1861 hash mark1907 tape1943 rocker1944 1907 N.Y. Evening Post 1 Aug. 8 ‘Hash-marks’ are the stripes showing the number of enlistments a man has served. 1919 N.Y. Tribune 24 Aug. viii. 3/8 The Navy Club has won the confidence and approval of the men with two, three, and four hash marks on their sleeves, and the approval of these old service men is no easy thing to get. 1962 Chicago Tribune 9 Dec. e1/1 It is a splendid story of Annapolis graduates and petty officers with rows of hash marks on their sleeves. 2009 L. Block Aboard Farragut Class Destroyers 214 A chief petty officer that does not rate wearing a hash mark on the sleeve of his uniform. 2. a. A mark in the form of a short, straight line, esp. as used to indicate increments of measurement or keep a tally. ΚΠ 1948 Factory Managem. & Maintenance Sept. 127/2 ‘Hash marks’ tell machine's age. ‘Hash marks’ are placed in conspicuous locations on all machines and equipment. 1974 D. T. O'Laoghaire & D. M. Himmelblau Optimal Expansion Water Resources Syst. i. 21 The feasible region is identified by the hash marks along the equality constraint. 1989 Pop. Sci. Nov. 30/1 The QuickStick is an 18-inch ruler with a difference: it displays measurements..so you don't have to count hash marks. 2012 R. W. Barner & C. P. Barner Building Better Teams 346 Provide team members with markers and ask them to vote by placing hash marks next to the ideas or solutions they favor. b. American Football. Any of the short marks which form two broken lines parallel to the sidelines in the centre of the field, used in placing the ball when it is put back in play. ΚΠ 1948 Athletic Jrnl. Nov. 46/2 Diagram 7 indicates the use of 57-right-in when the ball is on the opposite ‘hash-mark’. 1988 B. Cawley & C. Brogden How to play Amer. Football 108 The hashmarks run from goal line to goal line and define the area from within which the ball has to be played from any down. 2000 N.Y. Times (Electronic ed.) 5 Jan. d1 Warrick gathered the ball in on the Florida State 41-yard line and, with a burst, zigzagged down the hashmarks between Hokies all the way to the end zone. 3. The symbol #; = hash n.3 ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written character > [noun] > written character not a letter > symbol used before a numeral hash mark1961 hash1967 1961 Ann. Rep. 1960 (Chicago Civil Service Comm.) A hash-mark (#) after a position means that a title has been recommended for this position that is different from the budget title. 1974 Computerworld 25 Sept. 29/2 The 325 can indicate control or ‘attribute’ characters by displaying a hash mark at the start and end of a defined field. 1992 PIC Aug. 63/2 The ‘hash-mark’ (#) is used as abbreviation for ‘number’. 2011 D. Bateman Configuring Cisco Unified Communications Manager 165 The (#) is referred to as the pound sign or hash mark, [and] is also a valid digit that can be signify that the caller has finished dialing. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1907 |
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