What does bash mean?

Definitions for bash
bæʃbash

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word bash.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. knock, bash, bang, smash, beltnoun

    a vigorous blow

    "the sudden knock floored him"; "he took a bash right in his face"; "he got a bang on the head"

  2. bash, do, brawlverb

    an uproarious party

  3. sock, bop, whop, whap, bonk, bashverb

    hit hard

Wiktionary

  1. bashnoun

    A large party; gala event.

    They had a big bash to celebrate their tenth anniversary.

  2. bashnoun

    An attack that consists of placing all one's weight into a downward attack with one's fists.

  3. bashverb

    To strike heavily.

  4. bashverb

    To collide.

    Don't bash into me with that shopping trolley.

  5. bashverb

    To criticize harshly.

    He bashed my ideas.

  6. bashverb

    To submit to Bash.org, or QDB.

  7. Etymology: Short for "Bourne-again shell", a pun on the name of the "Bourne shell", an earlier Unix shell designed by, and the Christian concept of being "born again".

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To BASHverb

    To be ashamed; to be confounded with shame.

    Etymology: probably from base.

    His countenance was bold, and bash’d not
    For Guyon’s looks, but scornful eye-glance at him shot. Fairy Queen, b. ii. c. iv.

ChatGPT

  1. bash

    Bash is a popular command line interpreter, or shell program, for the GNU/Linux operating system. It is the default shell included with most versions of Linux. Bash interprets and executes commands entered by the user or from a script, and returns the results. The term is also used to refer to a specific type of script written for the Bash shell. The name "Bash" is an acronym that stands for "Bourne-Again SHell", which is a reference to the Bourne shell, an earlier Unix shell that Bash is an enhanced version of.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Bash

    to abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance

Wikidata

  1. Bash

    Bash is a Unix shell written by Brian Fox for the GNU Project as a free software replacement for the Bourne shell. Released in 1989, it has been distributed widely as the shell for the GNU operating system and as the default shell on Linux and Mac OS X. It has been ported to Microsoft Windows and distributed with Cygwin and MinGW, to DOS by the DJGPP project, to Novell NetWare and to Android via various terminal emulation applications. Bash is a command processor, typically run in a text window, allowing the user to type commands which cause actions. Bash can also read commands from a file, called a script. Like all Unix shells, it supports filename wildcarding, piping, here documents, command substitution, variables and control structures for condition-testing and iteration. The keywords, syntax and other basic features of the language were all copied from sh. Other features, e.g., history, were copied from csh and ksh. Bash is a POSIX shell but with a number of extensions. The name itself is an acronym, a pun, and a description. As an acronym, it stands for Bourne-again shell, referring to its objective as a free replacement for the Bourne shell. As a pun, it expressed that objective in a phrase that sounds similar to born again, a term for spiritual rebirth. The name is also descriptive of what it did, bashing together the features of sh, csh and ksh.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Bash

    bash, v.t. to beat or smash in.—n. Bash. [Prob. Scand.]

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  1. BASH

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. BASH

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Bash is ranked #9646 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Bash surname appeared 3,364 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Bash.

    84.8% or 2,855 total occurrences were White.
    7% or 237 total occurrences were Black.
    3.1% or 106 total occurrences were Asian.
    2.9% or 98 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.8% or 62 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.1% or 6 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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  1. habs

  2. Habs

  3. bahs

  4. shab

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of bash in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of bash in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of bash in a Sentence

  1. Uncle ML:

    Nonviolence isabsolute commitment to theway of love. Love is not emotional bash ; it is not empty sentimentalism, it is the active outpouring of one’s whole being into the being of another.

  2. Lane Pittman:

    I’m not trying to bash cops, i just don’t want the people surrounding me or who look up to me to think I’m someone that I’m not.

  3. Manny Santiago:

    The goal is to progress each sport to the maximum and we can do that without having to bash or cheat, the other sports do need that. (At) the cafeteria last night, the majority of the countries, the skate guys, we all sat down for dinner as like, ’Let’s all sit down before the event starts.' You don’t see that in swimming.

  4. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida:

    I'm not here to bash anyone, but the time has come to turn the page.

  5. Hadas Meitzad:

    The vote today proves that there are some countries who find it more important to bash Israel than to contribute to the international community.

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