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hedge
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)
- 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.
- 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.
- 1611, King James Version, Job 1:9–10:
- (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.
- (pragmatics) A non-committal or intentionally ambiguous statement.
- Coordinate term: weasel word
- (finance) Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements).
- (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.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Folio Society 1973, p.639:
Derived terms
Translations
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)
- (transitive) To enclose with a hedge or hedges.
- (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.
- 1769, King James Bible, Hosea 2.6
- (transitive, finance) To offset the risk associated with.
- (transitive, intransitive) To avoid verbal commitment.
- (intransitive) To construct or repair a hedge.
- (intransitive, finance) To reduce one's exposure to risk.
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- hedge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Hedge on investopedia.com
Anagrams
- Ghede, Hegde
Middle English
Noun
hedge
- Alternative form of hegge
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limit
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l?m?t/
- (India) IPA(key): /?l?m?t/, /?l?mt/
- Rhymes: -?m?t
Etymology 1
From Middle English limit, from Old French limit, from Latin l?mes (“a cross-path or balk between fields, hence a boundary, boundary line or wall, any path or road, border, limit”).
Noun
limit (plural limits)
- A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
- There are several existing limits to executive power.
- Two drinks is my limit tonight.
- 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, chapter 21:
- It is the conductor which communicates to the inhabitants of regions beyond its limit […]
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, episode 17:
- Ever he would wander, selfcompelled, to the extreme limit of his cometary orbit, beyond the fixed stars and variable suns and telescopic planets, astronomical waifs and strays, to the extreme boundary of space […]
- 2012 March 6, Dan McCrum, Nicole Bullock and Guy Chazan, Financial Times, “Utility buyout loses power in shale gas revolution”:
- At the time, there seemed to be no limit to the size of ever-larger private equity deals, with banks falling over each other to arrange financing on generous terms and to invest money from their own private equity arms.
- (mathematics) A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).
- The sequence of reciprocals has zero as its limit.
- (mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
- Category theory defines a very general concept of limit.
- (category theory) The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
- Synonyms: inverse limit, projective limit
- Hyponyms: terminal object, categorical product, pullback, equalizer, identity morphism
- (poker) Fixed limit.
- The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
- the limit of a walk, of a town, or of a country
- (obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits.
- (obsolete) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
- (obsolete) A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
- (logic, metaphysics) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
- (cycling) The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
- (colloquial, as "the limit") A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.
Synonyms
- (restriction): bound, boundary, limitation, restriction
Derived terms
Descendants
- German: Limit
Translations
Adjective
limit (not comparable)
- (poker) Being a fixed limit game.
See also
- bound
- function
Etymology 2
From Middle English limiten, from Old French limiter, from Latin l?mit? (“to bound, limit, fix, determine”), from l?mes; see noun.
Verb
limit (third-person singular simple present limits, present participle limiting, simple past and past participle limited)
- (transitive) To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.
- [The Chinese government] has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
- (mathematics, intransitive) To have a limit in a particular set.
- (obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.
Synonyms
- (restrict): See Thesaurus:hinder
Translations
Further reading
- limit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- limit in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- limit at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- milit.
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?l?m?t]
Noun
limit m
- limit
Related terms
- limita
- limitní
- limitovat
Further reading
- limit in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- limit in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Hungarian
Etymology
From English limit.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?limit]
- Hyphenation: li?mit
- Rhymes: -it
Noun
limit (plural limitek)
- limit (the final, utmost, or furthest point)
Declension
References
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From German Limit.
Noun
lìmit m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- boundary
- boundary that cannot be surpassed
Declension
Tagalog
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?li.mit/
Noun
limit
- frequency
- closeness; compactness; density
Synonyms
- kalimitan
Derived terms
- malimit
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