Heap vs Hedge - What's the difference?
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A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
* Francis Bacon
* W. Black
A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
* Dryden
A great number or large quantity of things.
* Bishop Burnet
* Robert Louis Stevenson
(computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=May 9
, author=Jonathan Wilson
, title=Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao
, work=the Guardian
To pile in a heap.
To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
* 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act I, scene II, verses 40-42
To supply in great quantity.
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.
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*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge , little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.
A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land.
A non-committal or intentionally ambiguous statement.
(lb) Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements).
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Used attributively, with figurative indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; third-rate.
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*:Attalus made him so dead-drunke that insensibly and without feeling he might prostitute his beauty as the body of a common hedge -harlot, to Mulettiers, Groomes and many of the abject servants of his house.
*1749 , (Henry Fielding), , 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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, passage=This particular wheelwright is only a hedge carpenter, without even a shop of his own,
To enclose with a hedge or hedges.
To obstruct with a hedge or hedges.
* Bible, Hos. ii. 6
* Milton
(finance) To offset the risk associated with.
To avoid verbal commitment.
To construct or repair a hedge.
(finance) To reduce one's exposure to risk.
In transitive terms the difference between heap and hedge
is that heap is to supply in great quantity while hedge is to obstruct with a hedge or hedges.heap
English
(wikipedia heap)Noun
(en noun)- a heap of vassals and slaves
- He had heaps of friends.
- a heap of earth or stones
- Huge heaps of slain around the body rise.
- a vast heap , both of places of scripture and quotations
- I have noticed a heap of things in my life.
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Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(heap)- He heaped the laundry upon the bed and began folding.
- Cry a reward, to him who shall first bring
- News of that vanished Arabian,
- A full-heap’d helmet of the purest gold.
- They heaped praise upon their newest hero.
Derived terms
* heap upAnagrams
* * * ----hedge
English
Noun
(wikipedia hedge) (en noun)A Farmer's Year: Being His Commonplace Book for 1898, page=222
Derived terms
* hedge fund * hedgehog * hedgerow * hedgyVerb
(hedg)- to hedge a field or garden
- I will hedge up thy way with thorns.
- Lollius Urbius to hedge out incursions from the north.
- He carefully hedged his statements with weasel words.