Hedge

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.

   “He trims the hedge once a week.”

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

   “Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.”

3. isim A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land.
4. isim A noncommittal or intentionally ambiguous statement.

   “When not inaccurate, much commentary on the contents of Hobson-Jobson is couched in hedges or relies on speculative estimates in the absence of exact information.”

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

   “The asset class acts as a hedge.”

6. isim With indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; being third-rate, poor, shoddy.

   “He then traced them from place to place, till at last he found two of them drinking together, with a third person, at a hedge-tavern near Aldersgate.”

7. fiil To enclose with a hedge or hedges.

   “to hedge a field or garden”

8. fiil To obstruct or surround.

   “Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.”

9. fiil To offset the risk associated with.
10. fiil To avoid verbal commitment.

    “He carefully hedged his statements with weasel words.”

11. fiil To construct or repair a hedge.
12. fiil To reduce one's exposure to risk.
13. özel isim A surname.