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Slash vs. Hack — What's the Difference?

Slash vs. Hack — What's the Difference?

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Slash

To cut or form by cutting with forceful sweeping strokes
Slash a path through the underbrush.

Hack

Cut with rough or heavy blows
Men hack at the coalface
I watched them hack the branches

Slash

To make a gash or gashes in.

Hack

Gain unauthorized access to data in a system or computer
They hacked into the bank's computer
Someone hacked his computer from another location

Slash

To cut a slit or slits in, especially so as to reveal an underlying color
Slash a sleeve.
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Hack

Cough persistently
I was waking up in the middle of the night and coughing and hacking for hours

Slash

(Sports) To swing a stick at (an opponent) in ice hockey or lacrosse, in violation of the rules.

Hack

Manage; cope
Lots of people leave because they can't hack it

Slash

To criticize sharply
The reviewers slashed the composer's work.

Hack

Ride a horse for pleasure or exercise
Some gentle hacking in a scenic setting

Slash

(Sports) To hit or propel (a ball, for instance) forcefully in a straight line.

Hack

A rough cut, blow, or stroke
He was sure one of us was going to take a hack at him

Slash

To reduce or curtail drastically
Slash prices for a clearance sale.

Hack

An act of computer hacking
The challenge of the hack itself

Slash

To make forceful sweeping strokes with a sharp instrument.

Hack

A writer or journalist producing dull, unoriginal work
Sunday newspaper hacks earn their livings on such gullibilities

Slash

To cut one's way with such strokes
We slashed through the dense jungle.

Hack

A horse for ordinary riding.

Slash

To make drastic reductions in something
Slashing away at the budget.

Hack

A taxi.

Slash

A forceful sweeping stroke that is made with a sharp instrument.

Hack

A board on which a hawk's meat is laid.

Slash

A long cut or other opening made by such a stroke; a gash or slit.

Hack

A wooden frame for drying bricks, cheeses, etc.

Slash

A decorative slit in a fabric or garment.

Hack

To cut or chop with repeated and irregular blows
Hacked down the saplings.

Slash

A diagonal mark ( / ) that is used especially to separate alternatives, as in and/or, to represent the word per, as in miles/hour, to separate component parts of a URL, as in whitehouse.gov/kids/patriotism/, and to indicate the ends of verse lines printed continuously, as in Old King Cole / Was a merry old soul. Also called virgule.

Hack

To make or shape by hitting or chopping with a sharp implement
Hacked a trail through the forest.

Slash

Branches and other residue left on a forest floor after the cutting of timber.

Hack

To break up the surface of (soil).

Slash

Often slashes Wet or swampy ground overgrown with bushes and trees.

Hack

To alter (a computer program)
Hacked her text editor to read HTML.

Slash

A genre of fanfic depicting romantic relationships between characters, usually of the same sex, that are not romantically connected in the original work or works upon which the fanfic is based.

Hack

To gain access to (a computer file or network) illegally or without authorization
Hacked the firm's personnel database.

Slash

As well as; and. Used as a representation of the virgule (as in restaurant/art gallery or actor/director), often styled with hyphens in print
A restaurant slash art gallery.
An actor-slash-director.

Hack

(Slang) To cut or mutilate as if by hacking
Hacked millions off the budget.

Slash

A slashing action or motion, particularly:

Hack

(Slang) To cope with successfully; manage
Couldn't hack a second job.

Slash

A swift, broad, cutting stroke made by an edged weapon or whip.
A slash of his blade just missed my ear.

Hack

To chop or cut something by hacking.

Slash

(cricket) A wild swinging strike of the bat.

Hack

To write or refine computer programs skillfully.

Slash

A hard swift lateral strike with a hockey or lacrosse stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.

Hack

To use one's skill in computer programming to gain illegal or unauthorized access to a file or network
Hacked into the company's intranet.

Slash

Any similar wide striking motion.
He took a wild slash at the ball but the captain saved the team's skin by hacking it clear and setting up the team for a strike on the goal.

Hack

To cough roughly or harshly.

Slash

(figuratively) A sharp reduction.
After the war ended, the army saw a 50% slash in their operating budget.

Hack

To let out (a horse) for hire.

Slash

A mark made by a slashing motion, particularly:

Hack

To make banal or hackneyed with indiscriminate use.

Slash

A cut or laceration, often deep, made by an edged weapon or whip.
He was bleeding from a slash across his cheek.

Hack

To drive a taxicab for a living.

Slash

(botany) A deep taper-pointed incision in a plant.

Hack

To work for hire as a writer.

Slash

Something resembling such a mark, particularly:

Hack

To ride on horseback at an ordinary pace.

Slash

(fashion) A slit in an outer garment exposing a lining or inner garment, usually of a contrasting color or design; any intentional long vertical cut in a garment. Clearing

Hack

A rough, irregular cut made by hacking.

Slash

A clearing in a forest, (particularly) those made by logging, fire, or other violent action.

Hack

A tool, such as a hoe, used for hacking.

Slash

The slash mark: the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩, sometimes inclusive of any mark produced by a similar slashing movement of the pen, as the backslash ⟨\⟩.

Hack

A blow made by hacking.

Slash

Female genitalia.

Hack

An attempt to hit a baseball; a swing of the bat.

Slash

The loose woody debris remaining from a slash, the trimmings left while preparing felled trees for removal.
Slash generated during logging may constitute a fire hazard.

Hack

An instance of gaining unauthorized access to a computer file or network.

Slash

(fandom slang) Slash fiction.

Hack

A program that makes use of existing often proprietary software, adding new features to it.

Slash

A drink of something; a draft.

Hack

A clever modification or improvement.

Slash

A piss: an act of urination.
Where's the gents? I need to take a slash.

Hack

A rough, dry cough.

Slash

(US) A swampy area; a swamp.

Hack

A horse used for riding or driving; a hackney.

Slash

(Scotland) A large quantity of watery food such as broth.

Hack

A worn-out horse for hire; a jade.

Slash

(UK) slatch: a deep trough of finely-fractured culm or a circular or elliptical pocket of coal.

Hack

One who undertakes unpleasant or distasteful tasks for money or reward; a hireling.

Slash

To cut or attempt to cut, particularly:

Hack

A writer hired to produce routine or commercial writing.

Slash

To cut with a swift broad stroke of an edged weapon.
They slashed at him with their swords, but only managed to nick one of his fingers.
She hacked and slashed her way across the jungle.

Hack

A carriage or hackney for hire.

Slash

To produce a similar wound with a savage strike of a whip.

Hack

A taxicab.

Slash

(ice hockey) To strike swiftly and laterally with a hockey stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.

Hack

See hackie.

Slash

(figuratively) To reduce sharply.
Competition forced them to slash prices.
Profits are only up right now because they slashed overhead, but employee morale and product quality have collapsed too.

Hack

By, characteristic of, or designating routine or commercial writing
Hack prose.

Slash

(fashion) To create slashes in a garment.

Hack

Hackneyed; banal.

Slash

(figuratively) To criticize cuttingly.

Hack

(transitive) To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
They hacked the brush down and made their way through the jungle.

Slash

To strike violently and randomly, particularly:

Hack

(intransitive) To cough noisily.
This cold is awful. I can't stop hacking.

Slash

(cricket) To swing wildly at the ball.

Hack

To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
Can you hack it out here with no electricity or running water?

Slash

To move quickly and violently.

Hack

(computing) To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.
I hacked in a fix for this bug, but we'll still have to do a real fix later.

Slash

To crack a whip with a slashing motion.

Hack

(computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.
He can hack like no one else and make the program work as expected.

Slash

To clear land, with violent action such as logging or brushfires or through grazing.
The province's traditional slash-and-burn agriculture was only sustainable with a much smaller population.

Hack

To work with something on an intimately technical level.
I'm currently hacking distributed garbage collection.

Slash

To write slash fiction.

Hack

To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
I read up on dating tips so I can hack my sex life.

Slash

To piss, to urinate.

Hack

To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.

Slash

To work in wet conditions.

Hack

To gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
When I logged into the social network, I discovered I'd been hacked.

Slash

Used to note the sound or action of a slash.

Hack

To cheat by using unauthorized modifications.
That player must be hacking, they got so many kills last game.

Slash

(North America) Used to connect two or more identities in a list.

Hack

(ice hockey) To strike an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
He's going to the penalty box after hacking the defender in front of the goal.
Jensen gets a 5 minute major penalty for hacking Orsov in the back.

Slash

(North America) Used to list alternatives.
Alternatives can be marked by the slash/stroke/solidus punctuation mark, a tall, right-slanting oblique line.

Hack

(ice hockey) To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
There's a scramble in front of the net as the forwards are hacking at the bouncing puck.

Slash

To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits.

Hack

(baseball) To swing at a pitched ball.
He went to the batter's box hacking.

Slash

To lash; to ply the whip to.

Hack

(soccer and rugby) To kick (a player) on the shins.

Slash

To crack or snap, as a whip.

Hack

To strike in a frantic movement.

Slash

To strike violently and at random, esp. with an edged instrument; to lay about one indiscriminately with blows; to cut hastily and carelessly.
Hewing and slashing at their idle shades.

Hack

(transitive) To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.

Slash

A long cut; a cut made at random.

Hack

To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.

Slash

A large slit in the material of any garment, made to show the lining through the openings.

Hack

(falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.

Slash

Swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes.

Hack

(dated) To make common or cliched; to vulgarise.

Slash

A opening or gap in a forest made by wind, fire, or other destructive agency.
We passed over the shoulder of a ridge and around the edge of a fire slash, and then we had the mountain fairly before us.

Hack

(horses) To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).

Slash

A wound made by cutting;
He put a bandage over the cut

Hack

(obsolete) To live the life of a drudge or hack.

Slash

An open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind)

Hack

To use as a hack; to let out for hire.

Slash

A punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information

Hack

To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.

Slash

A strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument

Hack

To drive a hackney cab.

Slash

Cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete

Hack

To play hackeysack.

Slash

Beat severely with a whip or rod;
The teacher often flogged the students
The children were severely trounced

Hack

A tool for chopping.

Slash

Cut open;
She slashed her wrists

Hack

A hacking blow.

Slash

Cut drastically;
Prices were slashed

Hack

A gouge or notch made by such a blow.

Slash

Move or stir about violently;
The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed

Hack

A dry cough.

Hack

A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.

Hack

(figuratively) A try, an attempt.

Hack

(curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.

Hack

(obsolete) A mattock or a miner's pickaxe.

Hack

(informal) An improvised device or solution to a problem.
Luckily for us J company picked us up in their hack — two snowmobiles with a big inflatable raft strapped between them.

Hack

An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date; a workaround.
Valleysoft released a hack yesterday to fix the "crashes when more than 50 recipients" bug for people who need it right away. The company says its next release will also solve this as well as add new features.

Hack

A computer programmer who makes quick but inelegant changes to computer code to solve problems or add features.
Tsang is great but Zhou is such a hack — I wouldn't want him on my project.

Hack

A computer programmer, particularly a veteran or someone not immediately expected to be capable of programming.
Terry wrote that module? I didn't know she was a hack too!

Hack

An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
Flugensoft came out with a neat hack last week that allows your watch to warm up your car if it's below freezing outside.

Hack

(colloquial) A trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity, efficiency, or ease.
Putting your phone in a sandwich bag when you go to the beach is such a great hack.

Hack

An illegal attempt to gain access to a computer network.

Hack

A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.

Hack

Time check, as for example upon synchronization of wristwatches.

Hack

(ice hockey) The act of striking an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
Zersky is still down after that nasty hack by Lenner.

Hack

(baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter, particularly a choppy, ungraceful one that misses the ball such as at a fastball.
And Melnick goes down with one last hack at an O'Malley fastball.

Hack

A kick on the shins in football of any type.
Wales are awarded a free kick after a minor hack by Järvinen on Llewellyn.

Hack

Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.

Hack

An airplane of poor quality or in poor condition.

Hack

(falconry) A board which the falcon's food is placed on; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.

Hack

A food-rack for cattle.

Hack

A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.

Hack

A grating in a mill race.

Hack

A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.

Hack

A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.
I got by on hack work for years before I finally published my novel.

Hack

(pejorative) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.

Hack

(slang) A taxicab (hackney cab) driver.

Hack

A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney coach, now typically a taxicab.

Hack

A hearse.

Hack

An untalented writer.
Dason is nothing but a two-bit hack.
He's nothing but the typical hack writer.

Hack

(pejorative) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)

Hack

(pejorative) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.

Hack

A political agitator.

Hack

A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.

Hack

(obsolete) A writer who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.

Hack

(obsolete) A procuress.

Hack

A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.

Hack

A frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc.

Hack

Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying.

Hack

A notch; a cut.

Hack

An implement for cutting a notch; a large pick used in breaking stone.

Hack

A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.

Hack

A kick on the shins, or a cut from a kick.

Hack

A clever computer program or routine within a program to accomplish an objective in a non-obvious fashion.

Hack

A quick and inelegant, though functional solution to a programming problem.

Hack

A taxicab.

Hack

A horse, hackneyed or let out for common hire; also, a horse used in all kinds of work, or a saddle horse, as distinguished from hunting and carriage horses.

Hack

A coach or carriage let for hire; a hackney coach; formerly, a coach with two seats inside facing each other; now, usually a taxicab.
On horse, on foot, in hacks and gilded chariots.

Hack

The driver of a hack; a taxi driver; a hackman.

Hack

A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed,Who long was a bookseller's hack.

Hack

A procuress.

Hack

To cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to hack a post.
My sword hacked like a handsaw.

Hack

Fig.: To mangle in speaking.

Hack

To program (a computer) for pleasure or compulsively; especially, to try to defeat the security systems and gain unauthorized access to a computer.

Hack

To bear, physically or emotionally; as, he left the job because he couldn't hack the pressure.

Hack

To kick the shins of (an opposing payer).

Hack

To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough.

Hack

To ride or drive as one does with a hack horse; to ride at an ordinary pace, or over the roads, as distinguished from riding across country or in military fashion.

Hack

To use as a hack; to let out for hire.

Hack

To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
The word "remarkable" has been so hacked of late.

Hack

To be exposed or offered to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.

Hack

To live the life of a drudge or hack.

Hack

Hackneyed; hired; mercenary.

Hack

One who works hard at boring tasks

Hack

A politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends

Hack

A mediocre and disdained writer

Hack

A tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for hacking the soil

Hack

A car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money

Hack

An old or over-worked horse

Hack

A horse kept for hire

Hack

A saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.

Hack

Cut with a hacking tool

Hack

Informal: be able to manage or manage successfully;
I can't hack it anymore
She could not cut the long days in the office

Hack

Cut away;
He hacked with way through the forest

Hack

Kick on the arms

Hack

Kick on the shins

Hack

Fix a computer program piecemeal until it works;
I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best

Hack

Significantly cut up a manuscript

Hack

Cough spasmodically;
The patient with emphysema is hacking all day

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