Hedge vs Immune - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between hedge and immune

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 immune is (epidemiology) a person who is not susceptible to infection by a particular disease.

As verbs the difference between hedge and immune

is that hedge is to enclose with a hedge or hedges while immune is to make immune.

As an adjective immune is

exempt; not subject to.

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.

*: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).

Used attributively, with figurative indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; third-rate.

*, II.2:

*: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

immune

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Exempt; not subject to.

* '>citation

Protected by inoculation, or due to innate resistance to pathogens.

(by extension) Not vulnerable.

(medicine) Of or pertaining to the immune system.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katrina G. Claw

, title= Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.}}

Antonyms

* susceptible * vulnerable

Derived terms

* autoimmune

Noun

(en noun)

(epidemiology) A person who is not susceptible to infection by a particular disease

* {{quote-book, 1965, , Bacterial and Mycotic Infections of Man, editors=Rene J. Dubos & James G. Hirsch citation

, passage=Susceptibles effectively exposed to cases become cases in the next time period; cases recovering from the infection accumulate as immunes .}}

Coordinate terms

* infective * susceptible

Verb

(immun)

To make immune.

* (Thomas Hardy)

In the seventies those who met me did not know / Of the vision / That immuned me from the chillings of mis-prision

* 1905 , American Veterinary Medical Association, Journal (volume 29, page 42)

The utilization of such milk will, however, necessitate an adaptable milk preservation method, through which the immuning agents will not be destroyed or diminished.

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