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Hedge vs Buffer - What's the difference?

hedge | buffer |

As nouns the difference between hedge and buffer

is that hedge is 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 while buffer is someone or something that buffs.

As verbs the difference between hedge and buffer

is that hedge is to enclose with a hedge or hedges while buffer is to use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another.

As an adjective buffer is

comparative of buff.

hedge

English

Noun

(wikipedia hedge) (en noun)
  • 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. ΒΆ, 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.
  • *{{quote-book, 1899, (Henry Rider Haggard), title= A Farmer's Year: Being His Commonplace Book for 1898, page=222
    • , passage=This particular wheelwright is only a hedge carpenter, without even a shop of his own,

    Derived terms

    * hedge fund * hedgehog * hedgerow * hedgy

    Verb

    (hedg)
  • To enclose with a hedge or hedges.
    • to hedge a field or garden
  • To obstruct with a hedge or hedges.
  • * Bible, Hos. ii. 6
    • I will hedge up thy way with thorns.
  • * Milton
    • Lollius Urbius to hedge out incursions from the north.
  • (finance) To offset the risk associated with.
  • To avoid verbal commitment.
    • He carefully hedged his statements with weasel words.
  • To construct or repair a hedge.
  • (finance) To reduce one's exposure to risk.

    • Derived terms

    * hedge one's bets * hedgy

    buffer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone or something that buffs.
  • (chemistry) A solution used to stabilize the pH (acidity) of a liquid.
  • (computing) A portion of memory set aside to store data, often before it is sent to an external device or as it is received from an external device.
  • (mechanical ) Anything used to maintain slack or isolate different objects.
  • (telecommunications) A routine or storage medium used to compensate for a difference in rate of flow of data, or time of occurrence of events, when transferring data from one device to another.
  • (rail) A device on trains and carriages designed to cushion the impact between them.
  • (rail) The metal barrier to help prevent trains from running off the end of the track.
  • An isolating circuit, often an amplifier, used to minimize the influence of a driven circuit on the driving circuit.
  • (politics, international relations) A buffer zone (such as a demilitarized zone) or a buffer state.
  • (colloquial) A good-humoured, slow-witted fellow, usually an elderly man.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1864-1865
    • , author=Charles Dickens , title=Our Mutual Friend , chapter=Book The First, chapter 2 "The Man from Somewhere" citation , passage=Lastly, the looking-glass reflects Boots and Brewer, and two other stuffed Buffers interposed between the rest of the company and possible accidents.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1864-1865
    • , author=Charles Dickens , title=Our Mutual Friend , chapter=Book The First, chapter 10 "A Marriage Contract" citation , passage=Here, too, are Boots and Brewer, and the two other Buffers; each Buffer with a flower in his button-hole, his hair curled, and his gloves buttoned on tight, apparently come prepared, if anything had happened to the bridegroom, to be married instantly.}}
  • (figurative) A gap that isolates or separates two things.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011
    • , date=November 10 , author=Jeremy Wilson , title=England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report , work=Telegraph citation , page= , passage=An utterly emphatic 5-0 victory was ultimately capped by two wonder strikes in the last two minutes from Aston Villa midfielder Gary Gardner. Before that, England had utterly dominated to take another purposeful stride towards the 2013 European Championship in Israel. They have already established a five-point buffer at the top of Group Eight. }}

    Derived terms

    * direct buffer * non-direct buffer

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another.
  • (computing) To store data in memory temporarily.

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • (buff)

    • Related terms

    * bufferize * buffer lass * buffer up * buffer zone

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