different between hedge vs moat

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.

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)

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.

Derived terms

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 mote, from Old French mote (“mound, embankment”); compare also Old French motte (“hillock, lump, clod, turf”), from Medieval Latin mota (“a mound, hill”), of Germanic origin, perhaps via Frankish *mot, *motta (“mud, peat, bog, turf”), from Proto-Germanic *mutô, *mudraz, *muþraz (“dirt, filth, mud, swamp”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mut- (“dark, dirty”). Cognate with Alemannic German Mott, Mutte (“peat, turf”), Bavarian Mott (“peat, turf”), dialectal Dutch mot (“dust, fine sand”), Saterland Frisian mut (“grit, litter, humus”), Swedish muta (“to drizzle”), Old English mot (“speck, particle”). More at mote, mud, smut.

As term for a business strategy popularized by American investor Warren Buffett.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m??t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /mo?t/
• Rhymes: -??t
• Homophone: mote

Noun

moat (plural moats)

1. A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation.

   Synonym: fosse

2. (business, figuratively) An aspect of a business which makes it more "defensible" from competitors, either because of the nature of its products, services, franchise or other reason.
3. A circular lowland between a resurgent dome and the walls of the caldera surrounding it.
4. (obsolete) A hill or mound.

Translations

See also

• cunette

Verb

moat (third-person singular simple present moats, present participle moating, simple past and past participle moated)

1. (transitive) To surround with a moat.

Anagrams

• Amto, Mato, Mota, TMAO, atmo, atom, mota, toma

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mo?t/, [?mo??t?]
• IPA^(key): /?mo??t/, [?mo???t?]
• Rhymes: -o?t
• Syllabification: mo?at

Noun

moat

1. Nominative plural form of moa.

Anagrams

• mato, omat