different between hedge vs define

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: h?j, IPA^(key): /h?d?/
• Rhymes: -?d?

Etymology 1

From Middle English hegge, from Old English he??, from Proto-West Germanic *haggju, from Proto-Germanic *hagj?, from Proto-Indo-European *kag?yóm. Cognate with Dutch heg, German Hecke. Doublet of quay. More at haw.

Noun

hedge (plural hedges)

1. 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.
2. A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm.
   • 1611, King James Version, Job 1:9–10:

     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. (Britain, West Country, chiefly Devon and Cornwall) A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land.
5. (pragmatics) A non-committal or intentionally ambiguous statement.

   Coordinate term: weasel word
6. (finance) Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements).

7. (Britain, Ireland, noun adjunct) Used attributively, with figurative indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; third-rate.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Folio Society 1973, p.639:

     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.

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Etymology 2

From Middle English heggen, from the noun (see above).

Verb

hedge (third-person singular simple present hedges, present participle hedging, simple past and past participle hedged)

1. (transitive) To enclose with a hedge or hedges.

2. (transitive) To obstruct or surround.
   • 1769, King James Bible, Hosea 2.6

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

   • 1670, John Milton, The History of Britain

     Lollius Urbius […] drew another wall […] to hedge out incursions from the north.

3. (transitive, finance) To offset the risk associated with.
4. (transitive, intransitive) To avoid verbal commitment.

5. (intransitive) To construct or repair a hedge.
6. (intransitive, finance) To reduce one's exposure to risk.

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Translations

Further reading

• hedge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Hedge on investopedia.com

Anagrams

• Ghede, Hegde

Middle English

Noun

hedge

1. Alternative form of hegge

English

Etymology

From Middle English definen, from Old French definer, variant of definir, from Latin d?f?ni? (“limit, settle, define”), from d? + f?ni? (“set a limit, bound, end”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??fa?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n

Verb

define (third-person singular simple present defines, present participle defining, simple past and past participle defined)

1. To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly.

   • Rings […] very distinct and well defined.

2. (obsolete) To settle, decide (an argument etc.) [16th-17th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.3:

     These warlike Champions, all in armour shine, / Assembled were in field the chalenge to define.

3. To express the essential nature of something.

4. To state the meaning of a word, phrase, sign, or symbol.

5. To describe, explain, or make definite and clear; used to request the listener or other person to elaborate or explain more clearly his or her intended meaning of a word or expression.

6. To demark sharply the outlines or limits of an area or concept.

7. (mathematics) To establish the referent of a term or notation.

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Noun

define (plural defines)

1. (programming) A kind of macro in source code that replaces one text string with another wherever it occurs.
   • 1996, James Gosling, Henry McGilton, The Java Language Environment

     From the computer programming perspective, Java looks like C and C++ while discarding the overwhelming complexities of those languages, such as typedefs, defines, preprocessor, unions, pointers, and multiple inheritance.

   • 1999, Ian Joyner, Objects unencapsulated: Java, Eiffel, and C++ (page 309)

     Anyone who has attempted to do OO programming in a conventional language using defines will find out that it is impossible to realize the benefits easily, if at all, without compiler support.

Translations

Further reading

• define in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• define in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• feed-in, feedin', infeed

Galician

Verb

define

1. third-person singular present indicative of definir
2. second-person singular imperative of definir

Portuguese

Verb

define

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of definir
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of definir

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de?fine/, [d?e?fi.ne]

Verb

define

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of definir.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of definir.

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (daf?na).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.fi??ne/

Noun

define

1. treasure trove

Declension

References

• define in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu