Hedge vs. Bush

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Hedgenoun

A thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden.

Hedgenoun

A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm.

Hedgenoun

A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land.

Hedgenoun

(pragmatics) A non-committal or intentionally ambiguous statement.

Hedgenoun

(finance) Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements).

Hedgenoun

Used attributively, with figurative indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; third-rate.

Hedgeverb

(transitive) To enclose with a hedge or hedges.

Hedgeverb

(transitive) To obstruct or surround.

Hedgeverb

To offset the risk associated with.

Hedgeverb

(ambitransitive) To avoid verbal commitment.

Hedgeverb

(intransitive) To construct or repair a hedge.

Hedgeverb

To reduce one's exposure to risk.

Hedgenoun

A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden.

Hedgeverb

To inclose or separate with a hedge; to fence with a thickly set line or thicket of shrubs or small trees; as, to hedge a field or garden.

Hedgeverb

To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from progress or success; - sometimes with up and out.

Hedgeverb

To surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in).

Hedgeverb

To surround so as to prevent escape.

Hedgeverb

To protect oneself against excessive loss in an activity by taking a countervailing action; as, to hedge an investment denominated in a foreign currency by buying or selling futures in that currency; to hedge a donation to one political party by also donating to the opposed political party.

Hedgeverb

To shelter one's self from danger, risk, duty, responsibility, etc., as if by hiding in or behind a hedge; to skulk; to slink; to shirk obligations.

Hedgeverb

To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on.

Hedgeverb

To use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite.

Hedgenoun

a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes

Hedgenoun

any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change

Hedgenoun

an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement;

Hedgeverb

avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues);

Hedgeverb

hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge;

Hedgeverb

enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges;

Hedgeverb

minimize loss or risk;

Hedge

A hedge or hedgerow is a line of closely spaced shrubs and sometimes trees, planted and trained to form a barrier or to mark the boundary of an area, such as between neighbouring properties. Hedges used to separate a road from adjoining fields or one field from another, and of sufficient age to incorporate larger trees, are known as hedgerows.

Bushnoun

(horticulture) A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.

Bushnoun

A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's; loosely, a woman's vulva.

Bushnoun

A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.

Bushnoun

(historical) A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.

Bushnoun

(hunting) The tail, or brush, of a fox.

Bushnoun

(archaic) A tavern or wine merchant.

Bushnoun

(often with "the") Rural areas, typically remote, wooded, undeveloped and uncultivated.

Bushnoun

(Australia) The countryside area of Australia that is less arid and less remote than the outback; loosely, areas of natural flora even within conurbations.

Bushnoun

(New Zealand) An area of New Zealand covered in forest, especially native forest.

Bushnoun

(Canadian) The wild forested areas of Canada; upcountry.

Bushnoun

(Canadian) A woodlot or bluff on a farm.

Bushnoun

(baseball) Amateurish behavior, short for "bush league behavior"

Bushnoun

A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal.

Bushnoun

A mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which a camera is attached to a tripod stand.

Bushnoun

A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.

Bushverb

(intransitive) To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.

Bushverb

To set bushes for; to support with bushes.

Bushverb

To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush.

Bushverb

(transitive) To furnish with a bush or lining.

Bushadverb

(Australia) Towards the direction of the outback.

Bushadjective

(colloquial) Not skilled; not professional; not major league.

Bushnoun

A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.

Bushnoun

A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs.

Bushnoun

A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree; as, bushes to support pea vines.

Bushnoun

A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (as sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.

Bushnoun

The tail, or brush, of a fox.

Bushnoun

A lining for a hole to make it smaller; a thimble or ring of metal or wood inserted in a plate or other part of machinery to receive the wear of a pivot or arbor.

Bushnoun

A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.

Bushverb

To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.

Bushverb

To set bushes for; to support with bushes; as, to bush peas.

Bushverb

To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush; as, to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground.

Bushverb

To furnish with a bush, or lining; as, to bush a pivot hole.

Bushnoun

a low woody perennial plant usually having several major branches

Bushnoun

a large wilderness area

Bushnoun

dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes

Bushnoun

43rd President of the United States; son of George Herbert Walker Bush (born in 1946)

Bushnoun

United States electrical engineer who designed an early analogue computer and who led the scientific program of the United States during World War II (1890-1974)

Bushnoun

Vice President under Reagan and 41st President of the United States (born in 1924)

Bushnoun

hair growing in the pubic area

Bushverb

provide with a bushing

Bushadjective

not of the highest quality or sophistication

Bushnoun

a shrub or clump of shrubs with stems of moderate length

Bushnoun

a bunch of ivy as a vintner's sign.